by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 23, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, American exceptionalism, anti semitism, burnout and professional fulfillment, Dr. Kimberly Becher, Featured Post, Governor Ron DeSantis, Healthcare in Rural America, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Holocaust, Venezuelan immigrants in Martha's Vineyard
September 23, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, What We Say, What We Do, and a Doctor Whose Actions Speak For Her My wife and I have been watching the latest Ken Burns PBS production, ”The U.S. and The Holocaust”. For over forty years, Burns has educated us...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 16, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACOs, Burnout, Dartmouth Health, Dean Robert Ebert, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare equity, improving the delivery of care, Innovation in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Primary Care Challenges, Primary Day in New Hampshire, rural healthcare, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
September 16, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Rethinking How We Deliver Care In last week’s letter, I tried to describe the disappointments and controversies currently associated with ACOs. Like a serialized Netflix presentation I want to begin by...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 9, 2022 | A story from my life, ACO, Continuous Improvement, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare equity, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Pioneer ACO, Queen Elizabeth, REACH ACO, System Consolidation, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
September 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About ACO Disappointments This week I have been thinking, or more accurately “musing,” about the current status of ACOs. “Musing” seems to me to be a word that has more depth and feeling than “thinking”,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 2, 2022 | "Wicked Problems" in Healthcare, 2022 midterm elections, ACA, ACO, COVID, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Governor Abbott, Governor Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden and the Future, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, Politics and Healthcare, Public Health, Ronald Reagan, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The Triple Aim
September 2, 2022 Dear Interested Readers. Where Is The Quality of Healthcare On Our List Of Concerns? It does not take long for the hot topics of the day to change. It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats were debating “Medicare for All” versus “Medicare...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 26, 2022 | A story from my life, Biden's forgiveness of some student loans, Conservative Values, Continuous Improvement, COVID, David Brooks, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Progressive Values, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life
August 26, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, What is the Story of Your Motivation? As you might have noticed if you are a regular reader of these epistles, I am a fan of David Brooks. That might puzzle you since I wear a liberal to progressive badge, and...
