by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 8, 2025 | 2026 mid term elections, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Burnout, concierge care, CVS, David Brooks, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Ashish Jha, Dr. Danielle Ofri, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Independent practice of mid-level clinicians, MAGA, Martin Luther King Jr, MassGeneral Brigham, Medicaid, Moral Injury, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Project 2025, Robert Kennedy Jr., Texas attempt to gerrymander for House control, The Voting Rights Act of 1965
August 8, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Struggling And It Is Likely To Get Worse Before Getting Better This week, there are some significant anniversaries. It has been 80 years since we dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 25, 2025 | aging and mortality, Burnout, Charles Handy, ChatGPT, Featured Post, living a useful life, Moral Injury, Social Determinants of Health, The View from Ninety
July 25, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Mid-Summer Musings On What’s Important We are near the halfway mark of the summer. I am shocked to realize that there are fewer than forty days until Labor Day, which is the practical if not the official end of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 11, 2025 | Big Beautiful Bill, Burnout, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare in Rural America, Lawrence Summers, Moral Injury, New England Journal of Medicine, no margin no mission, Politics and Healthcare, Sister Irene Kraus, The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care, The future of healthcare under Trump
July 11, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Coming To Grips With A Big Problem My Fourth of July celebration was dimmed a bit by President Trump signing his “One Big Beautiful Bill.” I have learned recently that many of the portions of the bill that will...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 23, 2025 | Activism in Healthcare, Burnout, Dr. Alice Chen, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Featured Post, FQHCs, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, healthcare under Trump, hospital closings in rural America, Medicaid, Moral Injury, Senator Bill Cassidy, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
May 23, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The New England Journal Comes Through As you may have noticed, I sometimes reference New England Journal of Medicine articles. Honestly, I have been disappointed by the relative silence of the Journal about the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 14, 2025 | A personal history, AI in healthcare, Atrius Health, ChatGPT, chronic disease management, Computers In Healthcare, Diversity Equity Inclusion, employed physicians, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, infrastructure inadequacies, MAGA, Moral Injury, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
February 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Primary Care Has Changed Since 1975 For several weeks, I have felt a need to write about primary care. When I try to write to express my concerns about primary care, I am derailed by yet another outrageous event...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 20, 2024 | A personal history, burnout and professional fulfillment, Charles Handy, Creative Destruction, discontinuous change, Disruptive Innovation, Featured Post, healthcare under Trump, Lean, Moral Injury, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, The Triple Aim
December 20, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Advice From A Recently Departed Compassionate Guru Last Sunday, I was enjoying a slow day. I was sitting by the fireplace in my living room, which you can see in today’s header when I received a text from Marci...
