by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 10, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, David Brooks, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality, Pandemic Management, Paul Krugman, The 2020 elections
July 10, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Seems Impossible To Look Away and See Beyond the Moment The last six months have been a blur. I can vaguely remember the impeachment hearings in January, and the faint hope that a couple of Republican...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 16, 2020 | Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, Pandemic Management, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, President Trump, The Prehistory of our response to COVID-19, the uncertainty of ignoring pandemic prudence
In retrospect the admonition to “Beware the Ides of March,” is not an exact fit for the explosion of COVID-19 in America, but close enough. The 15th of March has a long history of being a bad day. In ancient Rome it was both a religious holiday and the day when...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 15, 2020 | Atul Gawande, coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Groundhog Day/film, Inequality in Healthcare, lessons from the 1918 pandemic, Pandemic Management, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Racial Inequality, Social Distancing
May 15, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Challenge: Restart the Economy Without Inducing a Resurgence of COVID-19, and Other Musings I will begin with the “Other Musings” part of what I want to write to you: Somewhere, from someone, I...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 12, 2020 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, Covid-19, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Pandemic Management, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19
As we move into an attempt to recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have begun to think about how the delivery of healthcare will be changed by what we have experienced. Some have suggested that the pandemic has revealed serious flaws...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 8, 2020 | Avoiding the Second Wave, coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, healthcare finance, Honoring Caregivers in the Fight Against COVID-19, JIm Collins, Pandemic Management, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing, The World After COVID-19
May 8, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s a Time for Humility, Caution and Focus on Long Term Improvements. It is Not a Time for Arrogance, Abandon, and the Pursuit of Short Term Gains. It’s hard to know what everyone is thinking, and as a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 1, 2020 | Avoiding the Second Wave, coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Dr. Frank Gabrin, Dr. Li Wenliang, Dr. Lorna Breen, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Honoring Caregivers in the Fight Against COVID-19, Pandemic Management, The 2020 elections
May 1, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Too Soon For Me Goodbye to April! We began the month with about 17 million unemployed Americans and finished the month with over 30 million, or 20% of the workforce. The sad fact is that just as we are...
