by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 21, 2024 | A personal history, Critical Race Theory, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Implicit Bias, Inequality in Healthcare, Juneteenth, Peter Bloch, Social Determinants of Health
June 21, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Reflecting On The Real Significance of Juneteenth Our newest national holiday, Juneteenth, was celebrated this past Wednesday, June 19th. It was well publicized, but my assumption is that for many Americans the day...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 1, 2023 | "I Have A Dream" speach, A story from my life, Bayard Rustin, Burnout, Critical Race Theory, David Brooks, Equity, evangelical support of Donald Trump, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Implicit Bias, Inequality in Healthcare, intersectionality, January 6 attack on the Capitol, Joe Biden, Jon Ward, March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Russell Moore, Social Determinants of Health, The Care Experience, W.E.B. DuBois
September 1, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, After 60 Years, Dr. King’s Dream Has Not Come True If you read these notes regularly, you probably realize that I consider Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. one of our greatest American heroes. There were many...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 24, 2023 | antiracism, Biases, Burnout, COVID, Critical Race Theory, Daniel Kahneman, Diversity, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Equity, ESG, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Outcomes, Implicit Bias, Inclusion, intersectionality, LaShyra Nolen., Linda Villarosa, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine, woke healthcare
March 24, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, “Woke” Healthcare: Implicit Racism, DEI, ESG, Biases, Intersectionality, and Duality in Healthcare I don’t know if you noticed it or not, but some politicians who seek to gain political advantage on the right tried...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 11, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, A red wave, A story from my life, Children in poverty, Critical Race Theory, Democracy on the Ballot, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic inequality, election denial, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, Illiberalism, Inequality, MAGA, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The threat to women's reproductive rights, Trump's lies, Universal Basic Income
November 11, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, It Was a Beautiful Day To Vote, and Hope and Democracy Survived. I usually love to vote. This year as election day approached, I was very apprehensive about what life would be like after the “red wave” washed...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 3, 2022 | Biden's Advocacy For Gun Control Legislation, Critical Race Theory, David Brooks, diseases of despair, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, Healthcare equity, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, Robert Potter, Social Determinants of Health, Southern Baptist sex abuse scandal
June 3, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, More Problems Than Power In The Search For Solutions In A Divided Land In 2007, a few months before I became the CEO of Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Dr. Steven Schroeder’s “Shattuck Lecture”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 20, 2022 | Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Authoritarianism, COVID, Critical Race Theory, Don Berwick, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Illiberalism, Inequality in Healthcare, Liberal Values, Making America Great Again, Martin Luther King Jr, Mass Shooting in Buffalo, Polarization in America, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Replacement Theory
May 20, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, IIliberalism And The Future Of Healthcare It is easy to get lost in the despair of the moment. My newspapers and TV commentators tell me more than I want to know about mass shootings in Buffalo and Southern...