by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 12, 2025 | A personal history, ACA market subsidies, ACOs, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Zack Cooper
December 12, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, I Am Trying to Develop a Little Hope Now and then, I get an unexpected email response to one of these letters. This week, I got one of those surprises in an email from a longtime reader. He wrote: Have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 5, 2025 | A personal history, AMA vs. universal coverage, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, David Cutler, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, New England Journal of Medicine, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Six Domains of Quality, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace
December 5, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, We Need a New Approach to Healthcare Looking back on the years 2008-2013, when I had leadership responsibilities at a large and influential medical practice, I have very mixed feelings. I am pleased to have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 31, 2025 | A personal history, AI in healthcare, ChatGPT, dental health, Dr. Eric Topol, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, Dr. Steven Lin, Epic, Featured Post, food banks, food Insecurity, Innovation in Healthcare, Medicaid, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Primary Care, SNAP, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace
31 October 2025 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri: SNAP, Dental Health, and AI In Primary Care My original intent this week was to write about the disaster that many of my neighbors and millions of Americans are experiencing with the cessation of SNAP...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 24, 2025 | 2026 midterm elections, A personal history, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, DEI, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Featured Post, Government Shutdown, Henry Olsen, MAGA, No Kings protest, non profit healthcare institutions, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Rand Paul, Sister Irene Kraus, Social Determinants of Health, Speaker Mike Johnson, Stephen Lipstein, The Triple Aim, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace
October 24, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Sharing A Little Common Ground With Some on the Right, and a Few Positive Aspects of the Corporatization of Healthcare, As We Endure the “Shutdown.” In several editions of this weekly letter during...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 17, 2025 | A personal history, AI in healthcare, Burnout, Clay Christensen, Computers In Healthcare, Disruptive Innovation, Dr. Octo Barnett, Epic, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare equity, Mass General Brigham, No Kings protest, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Practice Improvement, Primary Care, The Triple Aim, workforce issues
October 17, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Is AI the Answer? I wonder if I attend more Zoom meetings than the average eighty-year-old. There are usually at least two and sometimes more Zoom meetings a week on my schedule. My Zoom meetings save me a lot of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 27, 2025 | A personal history, DEI, Dr. Crystal Cené, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Dr. Lee Younger, Dr. Marshall Wolf, Dr. Paul Batalden, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Inequality in Healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
June 27, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections On A Lifetime Of Practice And The Importance of DEI To Our Health This coming Tuesday will be the fiftieth anniversary of my first day of post-training medical practice. I was quite nervous as I walked...
