by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 24, 2021 | Dr. Robert Ebert, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Financial challenges of primary care., Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Health and Human Services, Healthcare equity, Life Expectancy, Practice Improvement, Primary Care Challenges, the centrality of Primary Care, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare, Xavier Becerra
September 24, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking About the (Compromised) Future of Primary Care I have always thought of myself as a primary care physician. When I joined the practice at Harvard Community Health Plan as their only cardiologist...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 27, 2021 | antiracism, Biases, Equity, Featured Post, Harvard Medical School, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Ibram X. Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, intersectionality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, structural racism in medicine, The American Families Act, W. E. B. Du Bois
August 27, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Structural Racism In Medicine On Monday I found the August 26 edition of The New England Journal in my mail. As usual, I read the table of contents while standing in the post office in front of my mailbox....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 23, 2021 | anti-racism, anti-vaxxers, Black Lives Matter, Climate Crisis, culture wars, Economic inequality, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, How To Anti-Racist, Ibram X.Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Racism in America, racist policy v. racism, Social Determinants of Health, Systemic Racism
July 23, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Can We Use The Desire To Be Anti-Racist To Improve Healthcare? Even if you are only a casual reader of these notes you know that I am a big fan of many of the columnists who write opinion pieces in The New...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 16, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, culture wars, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Politics and Healthcare, Racial Inequality, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, Social Determinants of Health, the filibuster
July 16, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Are Voting Rights Critical To Improving The Social Determinants Of Health? These are tense times for me. I wish that I could just turn off the television, cancel all my newspaper and magazine subscriptions,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 2, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, Equity, Healthcare equity, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Republican reluctance to accept the results of the election., Senator Joe Manchin, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act, the filibuster, Trump's legacy court
July 2, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What’s Next? What Are The “Joes” Going to Do? I am flabbergasted. It is my opinion that yesterday (Thursday) was a horrible day for our democracy, and ultimately for healthcare. The Supreme Court dealt the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 25, 2021 | Children in poverty, Critical Race Theory, David Brooks, diseases of despair, Dr. Bruce Perry, Economic inequality, Equity, Erik Erikson, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Improving the health of the poor, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act, trauma, What Happened To You?
June 25, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What Happened to You? Most Monday mornings since the COVID lockdown began I meet on Zoom with a few local friends to discuss a book that we have all been reading. We take on one or two chapters a week and...
