by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 19, 2022 | American exceptionalism, Biases, burnout and professional fulfillment, diseases of despair, Dr. Robert Coles and the "Call of Service", Dr. Vivek Murthy, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, healthcare finance, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Healthcare Outcomes, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, RVUs, Waste in healthcare, workforce issues
August 19, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Burnout and Workforce Challenges These days, it’s hard to escape the feeling that we must have made some huge mistakes for which we are now paying the price. Most of us grew up with the myth of American...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 12, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, Children in poverty, Economic inequality, Effective altruism, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, Inflation, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, out of pocket healthcare costs, political polarization, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The sixth extinction, What we owe to future generations, Will MacAskill
August 12, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, What Do We Owe The Future? Future people count. There could be a lot of them. We can make their lives better. That quote is part of Ezra Klein’s introduction to an interview with futurist Will MacAskill...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 5, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, Build Back Better, Consequences of repealing Roe v. Wade, Economic inequality, Emily Benfer, Evictions, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Matthew Desmond, Poverty and healthcare, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The Triple Aim
August 5, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Are We Making Any Progress? It’s been a strange week. If you believe in global warming there is circumstantial evidence that sadly you may be right as a continuing drought and high temperatures in the west dry up...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 29, 2022 | A story from my life, Activism in Healthcare, Actor-Network, Climate Crisis, Conservative Values, Continuous Improvement, David Brooks, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, Social Determinants of Health, the power of stories, The Triple Aim
July 29, 2022 Dear Interested Reader, Do We Have The Will and Mindset To Improve Our World? My Dad was a theologian who became a minister to earn a living. His sermons were built on his conservative theology and were full of stories. In his sermons, he...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 22, 2022 | Capitalism, COVID, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Healthcare equity, Inequality, Joe Manchin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Poverty and healthcare, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Thomas Piketty
22 July 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Changing Perspectives I have never been a reader of science fiction. I guess as close to being a science fiction enthusiast as I ever got was that as a preadolescent I enjoyed reading the Tom Swift books by Victor...