by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 15, 2022 | ACA, COVID, disinformation, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Healthcare equity, Omicron variant, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, pysanky, Richard Rohr, The Triple Aim, Volodymyr Yermolenko.
April 15, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Easter In Ukraine and Loosely Connected Musings About “Disorder” and “Reorder” in Healthcare As is true for many others, the continuing war in Ukraine has stimulated my fascination with the bravery and willingness...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 8, 2022 | ACA, Build Back Better, Choosing Wisely, COVID, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, Dr. Elizabeth Rourke, Emerging from the pandemic, Featured Post, Joe Manchin, Low Value Care, Medicaid post COVID, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Tom Friedman
April 8, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, What We Don’t Recognize or Refuse to Manage Plus What We Did Not Learn or Have Conveniently Forgotten May Be Our Undoing Flummoxed: flum·moxed /ˈfləməkst/ adjective adjective: flummoxed bewildered or perplexed.:...
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 | Mar 18, 2022 | autocrats, COVID, Dana Milbank, Donald Trump's admiration of Putin, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Governor Ron DeSantis, Health in America, Healthcare Transformation, Illiberalism, Inequality, Marina Ovsyannikova, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
March 18, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Trying To Make Some Sense Of A Continuing Senseless Tragedy There was a brief moment in time almost sixty years ago when I considered changing my college major from chemistry/pre-med to English. I was completely...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 11, 2022 | COVID, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Fiona Hill, Global Warming, Joe Biden's coordination of the west's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Nursing Shortages, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, renewed risk for the use of nuclear weapons, Tom Friedman, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare, Zoonosis
March 11, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Our Concerns Multiply “Beware the Ides of March!” was the soothsayer’s warning In Shakespeare’s play, Julius Ceaser. Looking back at 2020 and the explosion of COVID that occurred in mid-March, and becoming...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 18, 2022 | A story from my life, ACA, Atrius Health, compensation, Continuous Improvement, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Lean, Martin Luther King Jr, Massachusetts Health Policy Commision, Polarization in America, Process Improvement, team based care, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, transformational change, Value Based Reimbursement
February 18, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Musings on an Anniversary I published my first “Friday letter” on February 22, 2008. It was the last day of my first week on the job as the Interim CEO of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and Atrius...
