by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 8, 2019 | capitation, Dean Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, healthcare finance, Medicare For All, The Triple Aim
8 March 2019 Dear Interested Readers, What Medicare-For-All Can’t Fix Let me remind you of Dr. Robert Ebert’s 1965 formula for the future of healthcare in America. He lived for thirty years after this observation and did much to test his own...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 26, 2019 | "The Doctor" by Sir Luke Fildes, Donald Guthrie, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Medical Professionalism, the power of stories, The Triple Aim
If the picture in today’s header seems oddly familiar, you are right. It is a precursor image of the famous picture, “The Doctor” that hangs in the Tate Gallery in London and was painted by the imminent nineteenth century British artist, Sir Luke Fildes. ...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 22, 2019 | Amazon and Jeff Bezos, burnout and professional fulfillment, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Medical Professionalism, The Triple Aim
22 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers Professionalism In Difficult Times It is no longer news that many doctors and nurses, as well as the healthcare professionals who provide the business and operational support for healthcare, are struggling...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 19, 2019 | Burnout, Colleagues, Culture, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, The Triple Aim
Every now and then I see an obituary or read an article in a journal that can send me back in time more than forty years in my professional life and up to seventy years in the totality of life. There is a big “scrapbook” in my brain where I log a lot of “screen time.”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 12, 2019 | ACA, ACO, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Massachusetts Blue Cross, PPO contracts, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I like trains. Perhaps it is because my maternal grandfather worked all of his life for the Seaboard Railroad. Some of my earliest memories are of going down to the train station with him when we would visit the little town in North Carolina where I have had family...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 1, 2019 | Activism in Healthcare, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Healthcare in 2019, Improving the health of the poor, Population Health, Poverty, The Triple Aim
1 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Poverty in the Midst of Plenty, Stress, and Health When I look back on my professional life I realize that my practice was primarily populated by individuals and families that were mostly from the middle...