by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 27, 2015 | Delivery, Featured Post, Lean, Population Health Management, Reform, The Triple Aim
We all agree on the need for “physician engagement.” I rarely attend a meeting of physicians where someone doesn’t say that the problem with healthcare is that patients are passive, non-compliant and demanding and that a more effective form of “patient engagement” is...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 14, 2015 | Accountability, Delivery, Featured Post, Population Health Management, Reform, The Triple Aim
Lately I have been thinking again about the prescience of one of my most important mentors, Dr. Robert Ebert, who was Dean of Harvard Medical School when I was a student there. In my last blog post I cited a talk Dr. Ebert gave in 1967 at Simmons College, and I...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 3, 2015 | Delivery, Featured Post, Leadership, Population Health Management, Process Improvement, Reform, The Triple Aim
Last Saturday morning I was thinking about health disparities as I prepared to give a keynote speech at the Whittier Street Clinic’s Men’s Health Summit and Grand Opening Ceremony. I have recently joined their Health and Wellness Foundation Board and the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 3, 2015 | Reference Materials
This is the full text of the Kate McMahon Lecture delivered by Dean Robert H Ebert MD of Harvard Medical School at Simmons College, Boston, on October 19, 1967. Much has been written in recent years about medicine and the physician. In keeping with the “Madison...