by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 5, 2024 | 2024 elections, A story from my life, Concerns about Biden's fitness for office, David Brooks, Donald Trump, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Joe Biden, Social Determinants of Health, The June 27 presidential debate
July 5, 2024 Dear Interested Readers Let’s Think about Joe There has been something weird going on in cyberspace. Three weeks ago the notification service that I use each week to send an email to you saying that there is a new letter for you to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 17, 2023 | A story from my life, David Brooks, Dr. Harris Berman, Dr. Jennifer Leaning, Dr. Walter Murphy, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Glenn Hackbarth, Hamas, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Healthcare Mergers, Listening to Your Life, Pilgrim Health Care, Pluralism, Point 32 Health, Social Determinants of Health, The conflict between Israel and Hamas, The Triple Aim, Tufts Health Plan
November 17, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Mergers Change Everything The header today is a photo of a piece of commemorative glassware that was presented to each of the participants in the long discussions and negotiations that resulted in the merger of...
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 | Jul 21, 2023 | a personal testimony, Climate Crisis, David Brooks, Featured Post, Frederick Buechner, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Kim Stanley Robinson, Life Expectancy in America, Listening to Your Life, Social Determinants of Health, The Book of Charlie, The theory of everything
July 21, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Let Go and Hang On If You Can I recently passed my 78th birthday. Because of many factors like the pandemic, the fentanyl epidemic, increased gun violence, and probably somewhat due to increasing difficulty with...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 5, 2023 | ACA, amoral realism, burnout and professional fulfillment, Christian Nationalism, compassion fatigue, David Brooks, diseases of despair, Equity, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Healthcare in Rural America, Social Determinants of Health, The Great Stone Face, The Soul, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
May 5, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Medicine and the Struggle For the Soul of America One of the members of my Monday morning book group is a woman who is a retired minister and hospital chaplain whose oldest daughter is a physician’s assistant...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 20, 2023 | Children in poverty, David Brooks, diseases of despair, Economic inequality, Enlightenment Now, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, healthcare disparities, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Lfe expectancy, Manifest Destiny, Martin Luther King Jr, political polarization, Poverty and healthcare, Rutger Bregman and Humankind: A hopeful History, Social Determinants of Health, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life, The Triple Aim, The Voting Rights Act of 1965, Where Do We Go From Here?
January 20, 2023 Dear interested Readers, It Is a Matter of Perspective Most Monday mornings I am on a Zoom call with seven good friends. We are a “book group.” Over a few years, we have been through several books that discuss philosophical, ethical,...
