by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 23, 2024 | 2024 Democratic National Convention, A story from my life, Burnout, Featured Post, Governor Tim Walz, Healthcare Quality, Inequality in Healthcare, Kamala Harris, Medical Professionalism, Moral Injury, patient centered care, Professionalism, Six Domains of Quality, The 2024 Presidential Election, Trust in medical practice, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
August 23, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Have We Lost The Trust Of Our Patients? Everyone complains about healthcare. I know that I do. My access to healthcare is probably better than for most Americans, but I still find that there are barriers to the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 15, 2024 | A personal history, Alternative Quality Contract, Atrius Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Chapter 224, Charles Kenney, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, LEAD, Mike Dukakis, Moral Injury, Opioid Epidemic, Pioneer ACO, Six Domains of Quality, The Best Practice: How The New Quality Movement Is Transforming Medicine, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement, Waste in healthcare
March 15, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Income From Quality In the early years of this century after the near failure of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, there were very active conversations in Massachusetts about the cost, quality, and access to healthcare...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 25, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, Community Health Workers., Crossing the Quality Chasm, Emerging from the pandemic, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Healthcare equity, Improving the health of the poor, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
March 25, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, To Live in Challenging Times My goal for this week’s letter was to shift back to writing more directly about healthcare. Despite my plans, I found it hard to completely ignore the Senate hearings on the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 18, 2022 | autocrats, COVID, Dana Milbank, Donald Trump's admiration of Putin, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Governor Ron DeSantis, Health in America, Healthcare Transformation, Illiberalism, Inequality, Marina Ovsyannikova, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
March 18, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Trying To Make Some Sense Of A Continuing Senseless Tragedy There was a brief moment in time almost sixty years ago when I considered changing my college major from chemistry/pre-med to English. I was completely...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 9, 2021 | ACA, Activism in Healthcare, Biden's Transformation, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality, Mass shootings as an epidemic, Politics and Healthcare, Six Domains of Quality, transformational change
April 9, 22021 Dear Interested Readers, Preparing For Transformation I have been feeling disoriented since the Biden/ Harris inauguration. For four years I had felt vulnerable to the mismanagement and outright inhumanity of a narcissistic wannabe...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 30, 2021 | Adaptive Change, Atul Gawande, chronic disease management, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Inequality in Healthcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Polio and The Salk Vaccine, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Virtual Shared Medical Appointments
I am no medical historian, but I dare say that the history of medicine could be described as a “search for a better way.” Sometimes the search is cheered by the people and supported by entrepreneurs and governments desperate for solutions to threatening...
