by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 26, 2025 | A personal history, abundance, Christmas, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Primary Care, The Care Experience, the centrality of Primary Care, the good doctor
December 26, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, What Are The Attributes of A Good Doctor? Many doctors are very good writers. This time of year, I see articles talking about the best books of the last year. Usually, on a list of a dozen or more, I might have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 19, 2025 | A personal history, ACA, Advent, Center Addressing Rural Health Equity (CARHE), Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, FEED Kearsarge, food banks, food Insecurity, Hunger in America, Kearsarge Food Hub, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Russell Vaught, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health
December 19, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Remembering During the Holidays That Not Everyone Has Enough to Eat, and Trying to Do Something About It. “Food insecurity” is a good enough phrase, but my take is that it is a clinical euphemism that takes the...
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...
