by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 2, 2026 | 120th Congress, 2026 midterm elections, ACA, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, MAGA, Politics and Healthcare, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health
2 January 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back At ‘25 With Regrets, Looking Forward to ‘26 With Hope Most Sunday mornings, my wife and I record CBS Sunday Morning hosted by veteran TV journalist Jane Pauley. We often don’t listen to it until later...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 19, 2025 | A personal history, ACA, Advent, Center Addressing Rural Health Equity (CARHE), Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, FEED Kearsarge, food banks, food Insecurity, Hunger in America, Kearsarge Food Hub, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Russell Vaught, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health
December 19, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Remembering During the Holidays That Not Everyone Has Enough to Eat, and Trying to Do Something About It. “Food insecurity” is a good enough phrase, but my take is that it is a clinical euphemism that takes the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 5, 2025 | A personal history, AMA vs. universal coverage, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, David Cutler, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, New England Journal of Medicine, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Six Domains of Quality, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace
December 5, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, We Need a New Approach to Healthcare Looking back on the years 2008-2013, when I had leadership responsibilities at a large and influential medical practice, I have very mixed feelings. I am pleased to have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 28, 2025 | abundance, deprofessionalization of nursing, Dunning-Kruger effect, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Nursing Shortages, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, our critical dependence on nursing, Poverty and healthcare, Thanksgiving thoughts
November 28, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts at Thanksgiving About Nursing and All That I Am Thankful for and Concerned About in Our Fragile System of Care I have much for which to be thankful. Today, my belly is still a little stretched from the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 21, 2025 | A story from my life, burnout and professional fulfillment, ChatGPT, Dr. Douglas Beers, Featured Post, HIV care, Inequality in Healthcare, Legacy Health, Moral Injury, Primary Care, Social Determinants of Health
November 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts While Visiting Portland, Oregon Early last Monday, my wife and I were up before dawn in order to get to the airport in Manchester with plenty of time to make it through any unexpected barriers at TSA...