by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 12, 2026 | A personal history, Atul Gawande, Dr. Edward M. Hundert, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Medical School, medical education, Politics and Healthcare, What I learned ar my class reunion, Wildflowers
June 12, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Interesting Changes In Medical Education If you read my letter from last Friday, you know that I was writing from Boston, where my wife and I had gone for my medical school class reunion. Our minds play tricks on...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 1, 2022 | April Fool's Day, Atul Gawande, Bret Stephens, chronic disease management, Consolidation in healthcare, Costs, COVID, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, Inflation, Innovation, Joe Biden's coordination of the west's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, patient centered care, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, The Care Experience, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
April 1, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Are We All April’s Fools? I made an interesting discovery on the Internet. According to Wikipedia, Odessa, the resort city of Ukraine on the Black Sea, is the only city in the world where April 1 is an official...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 3, 2021 | Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Atul Gawande, Costa Rica's remarkable healthcare system, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, healthcare disparities, Inequality in Healthcare, maternal and infant mortality, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The Triple Aim, We have neglected the importance of public health.
September 3, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Gawande Delivers Again I have my healthcare heroes. Most of them like Robert Pearl, Elisabeth Rosenthal, and Zeke Emanuel, I don’t know personally. I just know and appreciate their articles, editorials,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 30, 2021 | Adaptive Change, Atul Gawande, chronic disease management, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Inequality in Healthcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Polio and The Salk Vaccine, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Virtual Shared Medical Appointments
I am no medical historian, but I dare say that the history of medicine could be described as a “search for a better way.” Sometimes the search is cheered by the people and supported by entrepreneurs and governments desperate for solutions to threatening...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 4, 2020 | Atul Gawande, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Paul Romer, Population Health Management, Public Health, Reopening the economy, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 election, The de emphasis of public health, The importance of testing in pandemic management
September 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Our Biggest Threat Is Our Incompetence This is a week when we get a treat. Atul Gawande has published another insightful article built on a position that he has expressed before. On several occasions Gawande has...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 15, 2020 | Atul Gawande, coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Groundhog Day/film, Inequality in Healthcare, lessons from the 1918 pandemic, Pandemic Management, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Racial Inequality, Social Distancing
May 15, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Challenge: Restart the Economy Without Inducing a Resurgence of COVID-19, and Other Musings I will begin with the “Other Musings” part of what I want to write to you: Somewhere, from someone, I...
