by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 28, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Featured Post, Global Warming, Joe Biden, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, President Trump, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racism in America, Republican National Convention, The 2020 election
August 28, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, From Here to the Election, Expect the Unusual and Bizarre It has been a violent and disturbing week as we have witnessed yet more dramatic displays of the effect of our continuing abuse of the environment and our...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 24, 2020 | American exceptionalism, Authoritarianism, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health and Healthcare, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, Pandemic Management, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing, The de emphasis of public health, The World After COVID-19
July 24, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Not As “Exceptional” As We Thought As a child, I developed a love of American history. My family traveled more extensively east of the Mississippi than to the west, but the east was the home of colonial...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 21, 2020 | C.T. Vivian, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr, Non Violence, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health
In the week immediately following their deaths on the same day, it would be hard to write a post in the age of Black Lives Matter and our increasing awareness of the role of white privilege and economic inequality in the persistence of healthcare disparities...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 7, 2020 | Bret Kavanaugh, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Reopening the economy
The president taught me something this week. I was not surprised when I heard that his campaign speech at Mount Rushmore was a dark and divisive presentation. I was very surprised, and a bit supercilious, when I heard that his rath came down on “far left”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 9, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic inequality, George Floyd, Inequality in Healthcare, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Reopening the economy, The Great Awakening, The World After COVID-19
The header for this post should look familiar since last Friday’s post featured a very similar picture. The picture on last Friday had been taken on the previous Tuesday evening when about 200 people gathered on the New London Town Green to demonstrate their...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 5, 2020 | coronavirus, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Featured Post, General James Mattis, George Floyd, Inequality, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partnership, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change
June 5, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Never Been This Late Before Many times during my practice life I would try to have a conversation with a patient about some change in lifestyle or a choice that they might make to avoid some future...