by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 28, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, Access to care, Barriers to benefits, cost of healthcare, Donald Trump, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare equity, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicaid work requirements, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, Pete Buttigieg, Politics and Healthcare, Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, rural healthcare, SNAP
August 28, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Are Advocates For Better Healthcare Part of an Effective Majority? There are about nine weeks until the crucial 2026 midterm elections on November 3rd. If you want to know the exact number of weeks, days, and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 14, 2026 | ACA, Access to care, cost of healthcare, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare affordability, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare Outcomes, Healthcare Quality, Implicit Bias, Medicaid, Politics and Healthcare, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, state healthcare rankings
August 14, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Looking at the Worst and the Best States For Healthcare When I was in practice, my office mailbox was flooded with “throwaway” medical journals such as “Hospital Practice” and “Medical Economics.” It was pretty...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 29, 2024 | "Joy in Medicine?", A story from my life, Burnout, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, Moral Injury, Moral sensibilities in healthcare, rural healthcare, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, The Triple Aim, Travel Nurses, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
March 29, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections On Nursing This week’s letter is shorter even than last week’s letter. I am making progress, but sitting in a comfortable position for the time required to do work is a challenge. I have appreciated the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 23, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, American exceptionalism, anti semitism, burnout and professional fulfillment, Dr. Kimberly Becher, Featured Post, Governor Ron DeSantis, Healthcare in Rural America, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Holocaust, Venezuelan immigrants in Martha's Vineyard
September 23, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, What We Say, What We Do, and a Doctor Whose Actions Speak For Her My wife and I have been watching the latest Ken Burns PBS production, ”The U.S. and The Holocaust”. For over forty years, Burns has educated us...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 16, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACOs, Burnout, Dartmouth Health, Dean Robert Ebert, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare equity, improving the delivery of care, Innovation in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Primary Care Challenges, Primary Day in New Hampshire, rural healthcare, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
September 16, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Rethinking How We Deliver Care In last week’s letter, I tried to describe the disappointments and controversies currently associated with ACOs. Like a serialized Netflix presentation I want to begin by...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 22, 2022 | A story from my life, American exceptionalism, Azovstal steel factory, Bret Stephens, Conservative Values, Contoocook Carry Community Fund, COVID, Dartmouth Hitchcock Health, Featured Post, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Marine LePen, Mariupol, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Remember the Alamo, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
April 22, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Remember the Alamo! Remember Azvostal! Remember The Triple Aim! I became an enthusiastic student of history in the seventh grade. By the eighth grade, I received the DAR medal for being the best student in American...
