by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 19, 2021 | Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's Inauguration, Public Health, Republican reluctance to accept the results of the election., Social Determinants of Health, The Attack on the Capitol, The centrality of the Constitution, The Triple Aim
I will be watching television most of the day tomorrow. The first inauguration that I remember watching was for President John Kennedy. The first televised inauguration was for Harry Truman in 1949. My family did not have a television until 1952 so I may have...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 15, 2021 | American exceptionalism, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic inequality, George Floyd, Global Warming, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Impeachment of Donald Trump, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Martin Luther King Jr, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, The president's enablers, The Triple Aim
January 15, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking About Abraham, Martin, and John As dark and disturbing as the last week has been, we have seen darker and more disturbing days. As I was thinking about the fact that today would be Martin Luther...
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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 11, 2020 | Continuous Improvement, Don Berwick, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Essential Workers, Featured Post, Global Warming, Health and Healthcare, Interdependence, Lewis Thomas, Sister Joan Chittister, Social Determinants of Health, Systemness, The Green New Deal, the president's lies, Zoonosis
In each of the last two posts I have mentioned Paul Batladen’s famous observation about the output of “systems.” Last Tuesday I wrote: The great physician and advocate for continuous improvement, Paul Batalden of Dartmouth, has reminded us frequently...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 3, 2020 | a personal testimony, Covid-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Global Warming, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Ta-Nehisi Coates
July 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, A Different Kind of Fourth One of my most cherished possessions is about fifty feet of 8mm film shot by my father between 1948 and 1950. I found several canisters of developed and undeveloped movie film in a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 31, 2019 | ACA, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Global Warming, Healthcare challenges for the "Twenties', healthcare finance, Healthcare Transformation, Value Based Reimbursement, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
I am so glad that it is going to be the 20s tomorrow. Bye-bye to a so-so decade. This New Year should be very interesting. There should be events that occur this year that will have a long term significance in our collective experience. I always embrace the New...
