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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 14, 2025 | A personal history, AI in healthcare, Atrius Health, ChatGPT, chronic disease management, Computers In Healthcare, Diversity Equity Inclusion, employed physicians, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, infrastructure inadequacies, MAGA, Moral Injury, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
February 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Primary Care Has Changed Since 1975 For several weeks, I have felt a need to write about primary care. When I try to write to express my concerns about primary care, I am derailed by yet another outrageous event...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 3, 2025 | A personal history, Carter's Camp David Peace Accords, Carter's Efforts To Expand Healthcare Access, Featured Post, Jimmy Carter, Mental Health Systems Act of 1980, Morning in America, Ronald Reagan, Rosalynn Carter, Social Determinants of Health, Social Security Disability under Reagan, Southern Baptists, Ted Kennedy, Why Not the Best?
January 3, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, My Jimmy Carter Musings In the very early spring of 1976, I decided to take a short trip to Bermuda. After the stress of my first year in practice, which followed all the stresses of my medical school years,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 20, 2024 | A personal history, burnout and professional fulfillment, Charles Handy, Creative Destruction, discontinuous change, Disruptive Innovation, Featured Post, healthcare under Trump, Lean, Moral Injury, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, The Triple Aim
December 20, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Advice From A Recently Departed Compassionate Guru Last Sunday, I was enjoying a slow day. I was sitting by the fireplace in my living room, which you can see in today’s header when I received a text from Marci...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 27, 2024 | A personal history, ChatGPT, Dr. Eric Reinhardt, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Dr.Zeev Neuwirth, Featured Post, Improving the health of the poor, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Martin Luther King Jr, political determinants of health, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Determinants of Health, The 2024 Presidential Election, The Triple Aim
September 27, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Exploring The Structural Determinants of Health When I became a healthcare CEO in February 2008, I was more focused on what happened within our organization and our relationships with our affiliated hospitals...