by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 31, 2020 | Continuous Improvement, coronavirus, Covid-19, David Brooks, David Leonhardt, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19, Zeev Neuwirth
I have been trying unsuccessfully to give some attention to something other than the rising number of victims of the coronavirus. I analyze the progression of my intellectual and emotional responses to COVID-19 along a timeline that runs along the same track of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 14, 2020 | ACA, Charity, compassion fatigue, Equity, Featured Post, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Access
February 14, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Charity, Empathy, and Equity, How Are They Related? Before launching into the main thoughts of this letter, let me clarify some of my sharp comments about Florida. One of my family members, a Floridian,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 17, 2020 | Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, Letter From A Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Therapeutic benefit of nature and exercise in nature
17 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Power and Importance To Healthcare Of Dr. King’s “Letter From A Birmingham Jail” Why are black people sicker, and why do they die earlier, than other racial groups? Many factors likely...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 22, 2019 | David Brooks, Economic inequality, Frederick Douglass, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, Martin Luther King Jr, states' rights, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I was quite gratified that in his recent sixteen hour panorama of Country Music, Ken Burns spent a disproportionate amount of time in episode six on Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson has always been a favorite of mine. He was an exceptional athlete at Pomona...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 11, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Administrative Burden, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
11 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Where Would You Start? When I listen to politicians talk, at least the ones running for president, the health care problems they are interested in solving are mostly limited to how we achieve universal access and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 1, 2019 | ATLAS conference, David Shore, Dean Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Lean, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, Toby Cosgrove
Last Friday’s Healthcare Musings began: At four o’clock on Tuesday afternoon I was sitting at a table in the ballroom of the Boston Seaport Hotel at the 6th ATLAS (Annual Thought Leadership Symposium). This year’s conference title was “Expanding Boundaries....