by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 17, 2019 | Continuous Improvement, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Improving the health of the poor, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Mark Twain's wisdom, Opioid Epidemic, Poverty and healthcare, The potential fallibility of statistics, The Triple Aim
Samuel Langhorne Clemons, a.k.a. MarkTwain, is famous for his ability to express a profound truth in a few pithy words. I frequently am reminded of his wisdom when I try to write. He is famous for saying “I apologize for such a long letter – I didn’t have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 9, 2019 | Activism in Healthcare, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Improving the health of the poor, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
Every Monday morning I am part of a small group that meets to discuss a few chapters of a book that we have been reading together. The books that we read are theological in nature, but related to an ongoing exploration of social justice. As I mentioned a few...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 21, 2019 | Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality, Population Health, Poverty, Sister Joan Chittister, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
21 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Critical Choices and Uncommon Courage I have a new “hero,” guru, and role model. She is Sister Joan Chittister, an 83 year old Benedictine nun. Her latest book, The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage has...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 4, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Economic inequality, Healthcare as a Right, Justice Democrats, Medicare For All, New Consensus, Rihanna Gunn Wright, The Green New Deal
Sometimes it feels to me like there are too many balls in the air. Back when I was practicing medicine, a time that is quickly fading from view as I try to use the rearview mirror of memory, I would categorize my colleagues by the way they approached problems as...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 14, 2019 | Dean Robert Ebert, Economic inequality, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health
If you are a close reader of these notes, you’ve probably figured out that my career was as a physician first and then secondarily as a healthcare administrator who was fascinated by the many facets of healthcare management and policy. Put into the...