by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 6, 2025 | ACA, Big Beautiful Bill, Conservative Values, David Brooks, Elon Musk, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare equity, J.D. Vance, MAGA, Medicaid, Patrick Deneen, Peter Bloch, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's principles
June 6, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Lately, I’ve Been Upset Every Day The last four and a half months, since President Trump resumed the presidency, have been very stressful for me. I assume that the anxiety and apprehension that I have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 23, 2025 | Activism in Healthcare, Burnout, Dr. Alice Chen, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Featured Post, FQHCs, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, healthcare under Trump, hospital closings in rural America, Medicaid, Moral Injury, Senator Bill Cassidy, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
May 23, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The New England Journal Comes Through As you may have noticed, I sometimes reference New England Journal of Medicine articles. Honestly, I have been disappointed by the relative silence of the Journal about the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 9, 2025 | David Brooks, DOGE, Dr. Atul Gawande, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MAGA, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's inept administration
May 9, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, There Are Increasing Challenges to Practice and Medical Research Until the 21st of January, the challenge to medical practice and research was how to make faster progress. The last eighty years have been a journey of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 25, 2025 | David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dunning-Kruger effect, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Illiberalism, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Steven Hahn, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Thomas Friedman, Trump's Cabinet Appointments, Trump's Easter post, Trump's tariffs
April 25, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, One Hundred Days of Damage to the Nation and the Future of Its Health In his column yesterday, Thomas Friedman quoted David Brooks. Brooks has said that Donald Trump is the wrong answer to the right question. Trump...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 18, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Alan Garber, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, political determinants of health, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Thomas Friedman, Trump's attempts to extort universities, Trump's first 88 days
April 18, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Everything Is Connected, Uncertain, and Likely to Get Worse The last thirty years have convinced me that healthcare, political issues, controversial social issues, and economics are connected in ways that can’t be...
