by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 11, 2022 | COVID, doctor shortage, Featured Post, Fiona Hill, Global Warming, Joe Biden's coordination of the west's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Nursing Shortages, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, renewed risk for the use of nuclear weapons, Tom Friedman, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare, Zoonosis
March 11, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Our Concerns Multiply “Beware the Ides of March!” was the soothsayer’s warning In Shakespeare’s play, Julius Ceaser. Looking back at 2020 and the explosion of COVID that occurred in mid-March, and becoming...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 5, 2021 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, ACA, American exceptionalism, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Biden's Use of Executive Orders, Black Lives Matter, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Economic inequality, Future of Heathcare, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, John McCain, political polarization, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare, Zoonosis
February 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Time To Start Again I am sure that I am not alone in my current strange mix of hope and residual fear. I am feeling much better now that Joe Biden is in the Oval office, but prior traumas are hard to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 12, 2021 | Build Back Better, Covid-19, culture wars, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Joe Biden and the Future, Polarization in America, Riots in the Capital, The President's COVID-19 Infection, Zoonosis
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the Oxford Languages “word of the year” for 2020 was “pandemic.” There was so much change in our language usage in 2020 related to the COVID experience that Oxford Languages which is the parent organization of the Oxford English...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 11, 2020 | Continuous Improvement, Don Berwick, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Essential Workers, Featured Post, Global Warming, Health and Healthcare, Interdependence, Lewis Thomas, Sister Joan Chittister, Social Determinants of Health, Systemness, The Green New Deal, the president's lies, Zoonosis
In each of the last two posts I have mentioned Paul Batladen’s famous observation about the output of “systems.” Last Tuesday I wrote: The great physician and advocate for continuous improvement, Paul Batalden of Dartmouth, has reminded us frequently...
