by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 21, 2025 | Chat GPT, Constitutional Crisis, Diversity Equity Inclusion, DOGE, Featured Post, Implicit Bias, MAGA, Maggie Haberman, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, Politics and Healthcare, President Trump, Project 2025, Social Determinants of Health, the equal protection clause, The future of healthcare under Trump, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency
March 21, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, A Constitutional Crisis? And Other Practical And Moral Injuries Most presidents use the “honeymoon” of the first one hundred days of a new term to get much of their campaign agenda translated into laws that might...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 22, 2020 | A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Culture, culture wars, E.J. Dione, Empathy, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality, Polarization in America, President Trump, Resilience, Social Determinants of Health, The election of Joe Biden, the president's lies
I have had the feeling, and I know that it has been shared by many of you, that 2020 was the most difficult year that I can remember. Against that universal feeling, or perhaps because of it, The Washington Post published an editorial last week entitled “20...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 13, 2020 | "Joy in Medicine?", Balint Groups, Burnout, burnout and professional fulfillment, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Robert Coles and the "Call of Service", Essential Workers, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, Francis Peabody and "The Care of the Patient", Joe Biden, President Trump, professional fulfillment, The 2020 election
November 13, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, An Introduction To A Remarkable Book I have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Two things that I have anticipated have happened simultaneously. First, the election is sort of behind us. If...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 3, 2020 | Build Back Better, election scenarios, Health in America, Jennifer Rubin, Joe Biden, Joe Biden and the Future, Martin Luther King Jr, President Trump, The 2020 election, the president's lies, The Triple Aim
Almost 100 million votes have been cast before election day. We are told that the turnout for this election will be huge. We are also told that Republicans know that anything that reduces turnout increases their chances of winning. I am OK with their enjoyment...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 6, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump, Presidential Politics, The President's COVID-19 Infection, the uncertainty of ignoring pandemic prudence
A prelude written after reflecting on this this post I doubt that there is any information in this letter that will be news to you. My guess is that everyone who might read this letter is aware of the events and issues that it covers. These days we all...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 28, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Featured Post, Global Warming, Joe Biden, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, President Trump, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racism in America, Republican National Convention, The 2020 election
August 28, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, From Here to the Election, Expect the Unusual and Bizarre It has been a violent and disturbing week as we have witnessed yet more dramatic displays of the effect of our continuing abuse of the environment and our...