by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 18, 2026 | 2026 midterm elections, A personal history, access issues for those with access, Dartmouth Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare Quality, Moral Injury, my wife's CVA, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Timeliness as a component of quality, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
September 18, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Unraveling Quality This week, as usual, I avoided watching the Emmy Awards extravaganza on television. I don’t exactly know why I don’t enjoy watching all the self-congratulatory entertainment awards ceremonies...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 19, 2026 | A story from my life, AI as a tool for diagnosis, AI in healthcare, Burnout, ChatGPT, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, Dr. Robert Wachter, Epic, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Juneteenth, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
June 19, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, AI May Not “Save” Healthcare, but It Is Changing It If you follow the list of headings that appear at the beginning of each of these letters, you know that one of the most frequent topics is “Future of Healthcare.”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 29, 2026 | AI in healthcare, democracy versus illiberalism, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dr. Robert Wachter, Dualism, Empire v. Shalom, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Kleptocracy, Liberalism, Marina Ovsyannikova, Non Zero, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Access, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare, Yuval Noah Harari
May 29, 2026 Dear Interested Readers Looking Past Policy Failures To Human Nature My letter to you two weeks ago revealed that my wife’s PCP had retired and that the practice was unable to provide her with a new PCP. She had originally been assigned to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 22, 2026 | A history of federal support to medical education, A story from my life, AI in healthcare, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Goodbye to Steven Cobert, Google's Gemini, medical education, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Universal Access, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
May 22, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, If We Hope To Move Ahead Someday, We Need To Know How We Got Here. Last week’s letter was a bit of a downer. I reported that the Wellesley Offices of Atrius Health had told my wife that she needed to go elsewhere to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 18, 2025 | America's defective social safety net, America's dependence on foreign medical graduates, Donald Trump, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare in Rural America, MAGA, Medicaid, narcissistic sociopath, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Politics and Healthcare, Republican enablers, SNAP, Social Determinants of Health, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
July 18, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, The Coming Healthcare Crisis in the Aftermath of the One Big Beautiful Bill, and Other Concerns I suspect that it is very likely that long after Donald Trump shuffles off this mortal coil, historians will be debating...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 14, 2025 | A personal history, AI in healthcare, Atrius Health, ChatGPT, chronic disease management, Computers In Healthcare, Diversity Equity Inclusion, employed physicians, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, infrastructure inadequacies, MAGA, Moral Injury, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, The future of healthcare under Trump, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
February 14, 2025 Dear Interested Readers, Primary Care Has Changed Since 1975 For several weeks, I have felt a need to write about primary care. When I try to write to express my concerns about primary care, I am derailed by yet another outrageous event...
