by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 22, 2020 | Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Population Health, servant leadership, The 2020 election, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, Trump's to efforts to name a third Supreme Court justice.
The talking heads on the Sunday morning news programs went back and forth between appropriately reviewing and honoring the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and speculating about the politics of naming her successor. One comment caught my ear...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 15, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Authoritarianism, Covid-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Public Health, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
Summer is fading fast into early fall where I live. I have already had a few roaring fires in my fireplace as overnight temps slip into the high thirties. Our fireplace has an elevated hearth where I enjoy sitting as I soak up warmth from a primeval source that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 11, 2020 | a personal testimony, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Housing shortages as a social determinant of health, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Opioid Epidemic, out of pocket healthcare costs, Poverty and healthcare, Remembering 9/11, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health
September 11, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Nineteen Years, And It Seems Like Yesterday You need to be in your mid eighties to remember anything about the Holocaust or World War II. If, like me, you are 75, you might remember the Korean War....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 4, 2020 | Atul Gawande, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Paul Romer, Population Health Management, Public Health, Reopening the economy, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 election, The de emphasis of public health, The importance of testing in pandemic management
September 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Our Biggest Threat Is Our Incompetence This is a week when we get a treat. Atul Gawande has published another insightful article built on a position that he has expressed before. On several occasions Gawande has...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 1, 2020 | Covid-19, Elizabeth McGlynn, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Healthcare Outcomes, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Sustainability, The 2020 election
The conventions are over, and the election lies 63 days, nine short weeks, into the future. It did not take President Trump long to hit the campaign trial. He landed at the Manchester Airport less than twenty four hours after desecrating the South Lawn of the...
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...