by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 19, 2021 | "Caste." Racism, “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Digitaal Health Access, Don Berwick, Dr.Anthony DiGioia, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, patient centered care, Patient Engagement, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Care Experience, The Triple Aim
February 19, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, An Anniversary It’s been exactly thirteen years since I wrote my first Friday letter to my colleagues, the staff of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. I had been the Interim CEO for a little over a week...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 5, 2021 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, ACA, American exceptionalism, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Black Lives Matter, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Economic inequality, Future of Heathcare, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, John McCain, political polarization, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare, Zoonosis
February 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Time To Start Again I am sure that I am not alone in my current strange mix of hope and residual fear. I am feeling much better now that Joe Biden is in the Oval office, but prior traumas are hard to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 18, 2020 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Build Back Better, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic inequality, Empathy, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Strategy Formation, Susan Rice, The Triple Aim
December 18, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, More Musing About What’s Next Last night I had the unique opportunity to hear Susan Rice speak at a virtual presentation of the Boston Speakers Series. She has an impressive resume and a very interesting...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 15, 2020 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dialog Across the Divide, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hands Across the Hills, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I don’t really remember when I first met Don Berwick. He joined Harvard Community Health Plan in the late seventies as a pediatrician. I began my career there a few years earlier in 1975 right out of my training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital before it...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 11, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Build Back Better, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Medicare For All, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, Universal Access, Waste in healthcare, Xavier Becerra
December 11, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Trying To Survive The Moment While Waiting For The Slow Evolution of Positive Change It has been a gruesome week in Lake Wobegon and across the land. It turns out that even in Lake Wobegon strange and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 27, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Black Lives Matter, burnout and professional fulfillment, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Dean Robert Ebert, diseases of despair, Don Berwick, Empathy, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Polarization in America, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Six Domains of Quality, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim
November 27, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Where Do We Begin The Work? During this last week I have been listening to Barack Obama read his book, A Promise Land, on my afternoon walks. It has been an incredible experience. I am delighted that the...
