by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 19, 2026 | A story from my life, AI as a tool for diagnosis, AI in healthcare, Burnout, ChatGPT, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, Dr. Robert Wachter, Epic, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Juneteenth, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
June 19, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, AI May Not “Save” Healthcare, but It Is Changing It If you follow the list of headings that appear at the beginning of each of these letters, you know that one of the most frequent topics is “Future of Healthcare.”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 22, 2026 | A history of federal support to medical education, A story from my life, AI in healthcare, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Goodbye to Steven Cobert, Google's Gemini, medical education, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Universal Access, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
May 22, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, If We Hope To Move Ahead Someday, We Need To Know How We Got Here. Last week’s letter was a bit of a downer. I reported that the Wellesley Offices of Atrius Health had told my wife that she needed to go elsewhere to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 20, 2026 | A story from my life, Authoritarianism, community, David Brooks, Derek Thompson, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Bernard Lown, Dr. Eugene Braunwald, Dr. George Thorne, Dr. Henry Asbury Christian, Dr. Lewis Dexter, Dr. Richard Gorlin, Dr. Soma Weiss, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, George Packer, MAGA, nativism, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Politics and Healthcare, Reinhold Niebuhr, self-interest, Social Determinants of Health, status quo, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness:, What Made Trump Possible?
February 20, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking For The Most Effective Approach To A Better Future I keep hoping that my reading will help me better understand our times and reassure me that we will eventually return to our efforts to improve the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 21, 2025 | A story from my life, burnout and professional fulfillment, ChatGPT, Dr. Douglas Beers, Featured Post, HIV care, Inequality in Healthcare, Legacy Health, Moral Injury, Primary Care, Social Determinants of Health
November 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts While Visiting Portland, Oregon Early last Monday, my wife and I were up before dawn in order to get to the airport in Manchester with plenty of time to make it through any unexpected barriers at TSA...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 10, 2025 | A story from my life, ACA, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Government Shutdown, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, MAGA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, political determinants of health, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Threatened support to the ACA marketplace, Trump's plan for Gaza, Where Do We Go From Here?
10 October 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The Shutdown Is An Exercise in the Political Determinants of Health In this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a poignant essay can be found at the end of the “Perspectives” section. It was...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 31, 2025 | A story from my life, amyloidosis, ChatGPT, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Make America Healthy Again, Politics and Healthcare, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Trump's Cabinet Appointments
January 31, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Trump’s Campaign of Strategic Chaos Continues: Implications For Healthcare Over the last week, President Trump has challenged Democrats to a game of political “Whack-a-Mole” with a flurry of outrageous executive...
