by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 3, 2020 | Communitarianism, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Empathy, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, Pandemic Management, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health
April 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Acute Presentation Of A Chronic Problem In less than a month after I finished my every other night on call schedule as an intern at the old Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and began to enjoy the luxury of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 31, 2020 | Continuous Improvement, coronavirus, Covid-19, David Brooks, David Leonhardt, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19, Zeev Neuwirth
I have been trying unsuccessfully to give some attention to something other than the rising number of victims of the coronavirus. I analyze the progression of my intellectual and emotional responses to COVID-19 along a timeline that runs along the same track of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 24, 2020 | coronavirus, Don Berwick, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Innovation in Healthcare, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health
Yesterday, I scored two rolls of toilet paper at the one grocery store in my town. I felt good about my accomplishment until I got home and thought about what it meant to find joy in toilet paper. I had volunteered to do the shopping, and my wife’s last request...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 20, 2020 | Crimson Contagion, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Pandemic Management, Presidential Politics, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 elections
March 20, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, There Is Evidence That We Deserved A Better Effort I hope that you are well and accommodating to this strange collective experience. All is safe and well in my new world where social distancing directs our...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 17, 2020 | Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Poverty and healthcare, Presidential Politics, Reform, Social Determinants of Health, Stock Market
It is St. Patrick’s Day, but the bars are closed, and there will be no parade. It feels as if we are in one of those pivotal moments that we will talk about for years to come. Some people say that America comes together in moments of crisis. We will be...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 18, 2020 | Amitai Etzioni, Communitarianism, Conservative Values, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Liberal Values, Polarization in America, Progressive Values, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
More often than I like to admit, I am surprised and embarrassed by my lack of familiarity with something that is news to me that has been general knowledge for others for some time. It happened again this week. I had never heard of communitarianism or Amitai...