by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 22, 2019 | Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Healthcare Policy, Population Health, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
Change is slow, and time flies. It has been twelve years since 2007, and changes that were discussed then are still works in progress now. 2007 was a big year for me. I did not know it, but 2007 would be my last year of full time practice and part time leadership as...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 11, 2019 | Featured Post, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, synthesis, The Triple Aim
11 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis: Developing a Poverty Dialog I began my writing almost eleven years ago as a device that I hoped might promote a dialog within our practice. I felt that we had challenges ahead,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 8, 2019 | Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", Improving the health of the poor, Poverty and healthcare
I was apprehensive when I sent out last Friday’s “Healthcare Musings.” The main section of the letter was entitled “We Must Address Poverty and the Social Determinants of Health.” I was concerned that some readers might not consider discussing poverty as an...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 4, 2019 | Democratic control of the House, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
4 January 2019 Dear Interested Readers, We Must Address Poverty and the Social Determinants of Health I have the opinion that most Americans do not understand or spend much time thinking about the term “social determinants of health”, or connect...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 20, 2018 | Economic inequality, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Michelle Obama, Population Health Management, Poverty and healthcare, The Triple Aim
Much has been written in recent years about medicine and the physician…A cursory survey of what has been written…permits the conclusion that medical science comes off rather well and the doctor’s image not so well. One gains the impression that doctors as...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 24, 2018 | Future of Heathcare, Poverty and healthcare, Presidential Politics, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
24 August 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Reader Alert! This week’s letter lives up to the title of “Healthcare Musings.” Perhaps it should be entitled “Political Musings in Search of a Connection to Healthcare.” I have excuses for the “peripatetic” nature of this...