by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 31, 2023 | A story from my life, Burnout, Career development, COVID stress on hospital resources, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Match Day, Primary Care Challenges, Professional Satisfaction, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
March 31, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, There Are Big Problems In the Pipeline For New Doctors It’s been a long time since “Match Day 1971,” and I don’t remember the scene as well as I remember the emotions. I was delighted to learn that I had...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 10, 2023 | A story from my life, Adaptive Change, Atrium Health, Consolidation in healthcare, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Health in America, Healthcare in Rural America, improving the delivery of care, Medical Professionalism, Primary Care, the difficulties of change, Wisconsin Health Atlas
March 10, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About How Things Have Changed and Hopefully Will Continue To Change My wife and I have just returned from a trip to my mother’s hometown in North Carolina where I spent many happy summer days as a child. Our trip...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 27, 2023 | 2022 midterm elections, 2024 elections, ACA, Consolidation in healthcare, COVID, Dartmouth Health, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare in Rural America, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, patient centered care, Social Determinants of Health, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, Value Based Reimbursement
January 27, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Financial Troubles, Workforce Concerns, Access Issues, and Concerns For Quality of Care One of my biggest post-pandemic surprises is that healthcare has moved down, not up, on the cascade of concerns that worry...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 16, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACOs, Burnout, Dartmouth Health, Dean Robert Ebert, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare equity, improving the delivery of care, Innovation in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Primary Care Challenges, Primary Day in New Hampshire, rural healthcare, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
September 16, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Rethinking How We Deliver Care In last week’s letter, I tried to describe the disappointments and controversies currently associated with ACOs. Like a serialized Netflix presentation I want to begin by...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 9, 2022 | A story from my life, ACO, Continuous Improvement, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare equity, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Pioneer ACO, Queen Elizabeth, REACH ACO, System Consolidation, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
September 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About ACO Disappointments This week I have been thinking, or more accurately “musing,” about the current status of ACOs. “Musing” seems to me to be a word that has more depth and feeling than “thinking”,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ARPA, Boston Medical Center, CARES Act, Collective Action Problems, COVID stress on hospital resources, Dartmouth Hitchcock Health, David Blumenthal, diseases of despair, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Guthrie Health, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Medicare For All, out of pocket healthcare costs, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the plight of "red state" rural Americans, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
July 1, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Does Healthcare Improvement Still Have A Chance To Get Any Attention? It seems like a long time since I have heard or read much about Medicare For All or any other proposal to expand coverage to the ten percent of...