by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 27, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Featured Post, Improving the health of the poor, Politics, the healthcare debate, the power of stories, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim
A couple of weeks ago when I gave you Dr. Patty Gabow’s letter to Senator Alexander I reported that I was reading Arlie Russell Hochschild’s recent book, Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. In that book Russell seeks to be...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 19, 2017 | Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Transformation, Leadership, Lean, Process Improvement, The Triple Aim
As I look back over my experience both as a practitioner and as a medical leader, I am reminded of the joke that the life of an anesthesiologist is composed of long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of terror. Nothing describes a moment of terror for me more...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 13, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Featured Post, Quadruple Aim, the healthcare debate, The Senate's turn at healthcare reform, The Triple Aim
Hours before James Comey appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee, David Leonhardt issued a warning in an editorial in the New York Times entitled “Uh oh, Health Care Edition.” James Comey’s testimony today will reveal President Trump’s blatant...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 6, 2017 | ACA, AHCA, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
Dr. Patty Gabow shared a letter with me that she is sending to Senator Lamar Alexander, the chairman of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. I think several of her points deserve extra emphasis and I have bolded them. Dear Senator Alexander,...