by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 1, 2020 | Avoiding the Second Wave, coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Dr. Frank Gabrin, Dr. Li Wenliang, Dr. Lorna Breen, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Honoring Caregivers in the Fight Against COVID-19, Pandemic Management, The 2020 elections
May 1, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Too Soon For Me Goodbye to April! We began the month with about 17 million unemployed Americans and finished the month with over 30 million, or 20% of the workforce. The sad fact is that just as we are...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 10, 2020 | Bernie Sanders, coronavirus, Covid-19, Joe Biden, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 elections, The Triple Aim, The World After COVID-19
April 10, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, COVID-19 Is A Stress Test For Our Country For over forty years I used stress tests to help me solve clinical problems and judge the capacity of my patient to respond to a physical stress. Over the...
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 | Feb 28, 2020 | ACA, coronavirus, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Nursing Shortages, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, Stock Market, The 2020 elections, VUCA
February 28, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Unexpected Events And Uncertainty in a VUCA World It has happened again. This last week was one where events seemed to suddenly converge on us to remind us of an important reality, change is a constant in...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 27, 2019 | ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Big Five Tech Companies Invade Healthcare, Costs, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Medicare For All, Strategy Formation, The 2020 elections, The Public Option, Universal Access
27 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back At 2019 As We Think About 2020 I am a maker of New Year’s resolutions. It’s that time of year again. Looking back on 2019 I did a pretty good job. I had some partial successes, and some of my...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 13, 2019 | Democratic control of the House, Featured Post, Health in America, Impeachment Hearings, Polarization in America, Population Health, Poverty and healthcare, selling plasma as income for the poor, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 elections
13 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers, How Good Are Things? It Depends On Who You Are And Where You Live. It’s hard to put the drama in Washington out of mind. If you have had the time, you may, like me, have spent many hours watching the House...