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 | Apr 3, 2026 | A personal history, Atrius Health, Burnout, concierge care, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Iran War, Ken Paulus, Moral Injury, Primary Care Challenges, private equity purchases in healthcare, Professional PTSD, The Triple Aim, Thomas Friedman, Wicked Problems
April 3, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Moral Injury and Burnout: Different, But Both Challenge The Future Of Healthcare In 2005, I was 60 years old and beginning to think about when I might retire. I was very busy practicing full-time in the outpatient...
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 | Sep 5, 2025 | a personal testimony, amyloidosis, Burnout, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, DEI, Featured Post, Gun violence as the number one cause of pediatric deaths, healthcare under Trump, Make America Healthy Again, Moral Injury, out of pocket healthcare costs, Politics and Healthcare, RFK Jr., Senator Bill Cassidy, Senator John Barrasso, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, Trump's attack on medical research
September 5, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Trump Chaos Puts Clouds on the Future of Healthcare in America The disturbing circus at the Senate Finance committee hearing yesterday featured verbal conflict between the Secretary of Health and Human Services,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 15, 2025 | AMA vs. universal coverage, Burnout, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, doctor shortage, Dr. David Blumenthal, Dr. Harvey Cushing, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", healthcare for the rural and urban poor, income inequality as a threat to healthcare, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicare, Moral Injury, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, political determinants of health, Project 2025, RFK Jr., Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Trump's attack on medical research, Trump's chaos strategy, Universal Access
August 15, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Living in Trump’s Turbulent World In what seems to be an era of ongoing expanding and universal conflict, healthcare—the care of the individual, the collective effort to improve its delivery to everyone, its...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 8, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Burnout, concierge care, CVS, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Ashish Jha, Dr. Danielle Ofri, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Independent practice of mid-level clinicians, MAGA, Martin Luther King Jr, MassGeneral Brigham, Medicaid, Moral Injury, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Texas attempt to gerrymander for House control, The Voting Rights Act of 1965
August 8, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Struggling And It Is Likely To Get Worse Before Getting Better This week, there are some significant anniversaries. It has been 80 years since we dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more...
