by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 3, 2022 | Biden's Advocacy For Gun Control Legislation, Critical Race Theory, David Brooks, diseases of despair, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Global Warming, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, Healthcare equity, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, Robert Potter, Social Determinants of Health, Southern Baptist sex abuse scandal
June 3, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, More Problems Than Power In The Search For Solutions In A Divided Land In 2007, a few months before I became the CEO of Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Dr. Steven Schroeder’s “Shattuck Lecture”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 31, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, COVID, COVID uncertainty, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Omicron variant, Pandemic Management, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Progressive Values, Senator Joe Manchin, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The importance of testing in pandemic management, Vaccine hesitancy, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
December 31, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections On 2021, A Very Unusual And Unpleasant Year, And Hopes For A Better 2022. If you are reading this letter, you have survived a tough year. Well, maybe, there are a few hours before that is certain. On...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 24, 2021 | Dr. Robert Ebert, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Financial challenges of primary care., Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Health and Human Services, Healthcare equity, Life Expectancy, Practice Improvement, Primary Care Challenges, the centrality of Primary Care, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare, Xavier Becerra
September 24, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking About the (Compromised) Future of Primary Care I have always thought of myself as a primary care physician. When I joined the practice at Harvard Community Health Plan as their only cardiologist...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 13, 2021 | Critical Race Theory, Economic inequality, Global Warming, Health in America, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Outcomes, How To Be An Antiracist, Ibram X.Kendi, Inequality, intersectionality, Life Expectancy, Population Health, Poverty, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health
August 13, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Going Deeper Into What Could Be If you have been a regular reader of these notes for at least a year you know that from time to time I find inspiration in the writing and songs of my youngest son. When he...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 23, 2021 | anti-racism, anti-vaxxers, Black Lives Matter, Climate Crisis, culture wars, Economic inequality, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, How To Anti-Racist, Ibram X.Kendi, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Racism in America, racist policy v. racism, Social Determinants of Health, Systemic Racism
July 23, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Can We Use The Desire To Be Anti-Racist To Improve Healthcare? Even if you are only a casual reader of these notes you know that I am a big fan of many of the columnists who write opinion pieces in The New...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 2, 2021 | "Caste." Racism, Activism in Healthcare, anti-racism, Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Harvard Medical School, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Martin Luther King Jr, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The 1619 Project, The Triple Aim
In August 2019, long before we were challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic The New York Times Magazine published “The 1619 Project.” We live in a time where race and the impact of our history of slavery, the era of Jim Crow, and the continuing struggle for social...