by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 24, 2018 | Health in America, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, The Triple Aim
Over the last year the consideration of the social determinants of health has become my greatest professional interest. This shift in my thinking has not been because I have lost interest in or am less committed to the noble ideals and objectives of the Triple Aim,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 17, 2018 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Mindset, Moral Minds, Social Determinants of Health, the healthcare debate
Someday the presidency of Donald Trump will be a subject for historians. Whatever historians say, I am sure that they will begin the story long before we thought of Trump’s bid for the presidency as anything more than a joke. The story will not begin with a review of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 10, 2018 | Featured Post, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty, Poverty and healthcare
Not much has changed in the experience of many since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr In the days before the fiftieth anniversary...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 3, 2018 | Economic inequality, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, patient centered care, The Triple Aim
I have been reading/listening to Martin Buber’s classic work I and Thou (Ich und Du). I was encouraged to returned to this difficult book after several years by Ezra Klein’s podcast of a conversation with Jaron Lanier, one of the pioneers of virtual reality and the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured Post, Health in America, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, The Triple Aim
I am a reader. Amazon knows what to feed me. I get notice of books about politics, especially ones critiquing President Trump and the current perils to the future of our democracy. Their computers know I am interested in inequality and behavioral economics. My...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 30, 2018 | Burnout, Health in America, healthcare finance, Healthcare Quality, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, The Triple Aim
It has been almost ten years since I took on the challenge of trying to lead Atrius Health. The challenges then were very similar to the ones we face now. I was impressed then as I am now with the body of thought and knowledge that had been expressed in Crossing the...