by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 12, 2020 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, Covid-19, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Pandemic Management, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19
As we move into an attempt to recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have begun to think about how the delivery of healthcare will be changed by what we have experienced. Some have suggested that the pandemic has revealed serious flaws...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 8, 2020 | Avoiding the Second Wave, coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, healthcare finance, Honoring Caregivers in the Fight Against COVID-19, JIm Collins, Pandemic Management, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing, The World After COVID-19
May 8, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s a Time for Humility, Caution and Focus on Long Term Improvements. It is Not a Time for Arrogance, Abandon, and the Pursuit of Short Term Gains. It’s hard to know what everyone is thinking, and as a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 5, 2020 | Bill Gates, coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, herd immunity, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Reopening the economy, Social Distancing
During the past six weeks, but especially over the last couple of weeks as the discussion about ending social isolation has gained momentum, the nation has been united in a curious way. We are united by a shared state of confusion and a lack of clarity about...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 1, 2020 | Avoiding the Second Wave, coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Dr. Frank Gabrin, Dr. Li Wenliang, Dr. Lorna Breen, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Honoring Caregivers in the Fight Against COVID-19, Pandemic Management, The 2020 elections
May 1, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Too Soon For Me Goodbye to April! We began the month with about 17 million unemployed Americans and finished the month with over 30 million, or 20% of the workforce. The sad fact is that just as we are...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 28, 2020 | coronavirus, Dennis Ross, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Middle East Issues and COVID-19, Pandemic Management, political polarization, Presidential Politics, Tom Friedman, VUCA
Over the past six weeks VUCA, the acronym for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, has passed through my mind on countless occasions as I tried to think about how unexpectedly, rapidly, definitely, and devastatingly the world had changed. Almost as...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 24, 2020 | C-19, coronavirus, Covid-19, diseases of despair, Featured Post, Honoring Caregivers in the Fight Against COVID-19, Pandemic Management, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Quality Chasm, The World After COVID-19, Universal Access
April 24, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, A Fear Of Slip Slidin’ Away The changing character of the native population, brought about through unremarked pressures on porous borders; the creation of an increasingly unwieldy and rigid bureaucracy,...