by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 26, 2015 | Burnout, Featured Post, Leadership, Lean, Reform
What does David Foster Wallace have to tell us about burnout? More than most healthcare professionals might think. The publicity for The End of the Tour, a new film starring Jason Segel as Wallace, has reminded me of the message I took away from the first Wallace book...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 14, 2015 | Accountability, Delivery, Featured Post, Long Term Service and Support, Population Health Management, The Triple Aim
Recently the New England Journal of Medicine published a great article in the “Perspective” section, “The Older Americans Act at 50”. Unfortunately the article is available online only to those who are subscribers, so I will try to give a very brief overview of its...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 5, 2015 | Featured Post, News, Payment Models
Medicare and Medicaid are now fifty years old. I suspect they are the two programs that much of the healthcare establishment still loves to hate the most. Lyndon Johnson’s signing on July 30, 1965 of the Social Security Amendments of 1965, created two landmark...