by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 10, 2018 | Burnout, Career development, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Joy in Practice, Lean, Practice Improvement
I do not get invited to many baby showers. Before last month I do not think that I had ever been to a baby shower. Is it something about me, or is it just a cultural thing? Whatever, I was delighted when my wife announced that a couple of dear friends decided that the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 6, 2018 | Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Politics, Poverty and healthcare, Presidential Politics
6 July 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Welcome to The New “Healthcare Musings” Friday Letter! If you are reading these words you have made a transition! I talk alot about change. I know that whether I like it or not most things around me, and most...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 3, 2018 | Healthcare Transformation, Reform, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I envy guitar players. I wish that I was decent plucker of strings. I have been trying to make progress in this area for forty years. Two of my greatest disappointments in life are that I have never become proficient enough with any musical instrument to feel...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 26, 2018 | ACA, Amazon and Jeff Bezos, Atul Gawande, Healthcare Transformation, Innovation in Healthcare, Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan Chase, Population Health Management, Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway
My wife called while I was out walking to let me know that she had just heard that Atul Gawande had been named as CEO for the new healthcare organization that is proposed as a joint venture between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase. I was surprised at...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 19, 2018 | Burnout, Featured Post, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Joy in Practice, Practice Improvement, Quadruple Aim, The Triple Aim
Over the years I have had some strange dreams. In one recurrent dream I am back in high school playing football. It is not like the old days when I was an All Star. Despite the fact that I feel that I am at least as good as the other guys, even though I am in my...