by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 14, 2026 | ACA, Access to care, cost of healthcare, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare affordability, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare Outcomes, Healthcare Quality, Implicit Bias, Medicaid, Politics and Healthcare, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, state healthcare rankings
August 14, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking at the Worst and the Best States For Healthcare When I was in practice, my office mailbox was flooded with “throwaway” medical journals such as “Hospital Practice” and “Medical Economics.” It was pretty...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 24, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, 2028 elections, ACA, Access to care, co-opitition, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, Iran War, Jamelle Bouie, Physician engagement, Quintuple Aim, The Coming Healthcare Revolution, The Public Option
July 24, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Will Physicians Engage In the Effort to Achieve Healthcare Equity? Last week’s letter reviewed The Coming Healthcare Revolution: 10 Forces That Will Cure America’s Health Crisis, written by David W. Johnson, a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 10, 2026 | ChatGPT, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, No Kings protest, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Our 250th National Birthday, physician signers of the Declaration of Independence, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Declaration of Independence, The Triple Aim, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency, Trump's undermining of healthcare
July 10, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Physicians and The Declaration of Independence: Redux When I signed off on my second attempt at last week’s letter discussing the participation of physicians who signed the Declaration of Independence, I thought it...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 26, 2026 | 4th of July, A personal history, Atrius Health, Burnout, Capitalism, ChatGPT, Consolidation in healthcare, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, Dr. Louise Aronson, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Loren Adler, Mass General Brigham, Moral Injury, New England Journal of Medicine, Partners Health Care, The Triple Aim
June 26, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, When Will Doctors Take A Stand? Exactly a year ago, The New England Journal of Medicine began a remarkable series in its “Perspectives” section entitled The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care. There was a companion...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 19, 2026 | A story from my life, AI as a tool for diagnosis, AI in healthcare, Burnout, ChatGPT, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, Dr. Robert Wachter, Epic, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Juneteenth, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
June 19, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, AI May Not “Save” Healthcare, but It Is Changing It If you follow the list of headings that appear at the beginning of each of these letters, you know that one of the most frequent topics is “Future of Healthcare.”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 12, 2026 | A personal history, Atul Gawande, Dr. Edward M. Hundert, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Medical School, medical education, Politics and Healthcare, What I learned ar my class reunion, Wildflowers
June 12, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Interesting Changes In Medical Education If you read my letter from last Friday, you know that I was writing from Boston, where my wife and I had gone for my medical school class reunion. Our minds play tricks on...
