by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 18, 2020 | and healthcare, Boston Medical Center, Covid-19, George Floyd, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Public Health, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health
September 18, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Pondering the Message of Caste in the Context of These Times One of the benefits of retirement is the time to participate in book groups and other gatherings of older folks who are still interested in a wider...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 15, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Authoritarianism, Covid-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Public Health, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
Summer is fading fast into early fall where I live. I have already had a few roaring fires in my fireplace as overnight temps slip into the high thirties. Our fireplace has an elevated hearth where I enjoy sitting as I soak up warmth from a primeval source that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 11, 2020 | a personal testimony, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Opioid Epidemic, out of pocket healthcare costs, Poverty and healthcare, Remembering 9/11, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health
September 11, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Nineteen Years, And It Seems Like Yesterday You need to be in your mid eighties to remember anything about the Holocaust or World War II. If, like me, you are 75, you might remember the Korean War....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 8, 2020 | Future of Heathcare, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Public Health, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, Strategy, The 2020 election, The Triple Aim, VUCA
November 3rd lies exactly eight weeks into the future. In the interim we will be in a period of extreme VUCA. If you are a new or casual reader of these postings you may not understand what I am implying by saying it will be a period of extreme VUCA. Even if...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 4, 2020 | Atul Gawande, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Paul Romer, Population Health Management, Public Health, Reopening the economy, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 election, The de emphasis of public health, The importance of testing in pandemic management
September 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Our Biggest Threat Is Our Incompetence This is a week when we get a treat. Atul Gawande has published another insightful article built on a position that he has expressed before. On several occasions Gawande has...