by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 30, 2020 | "Humankind:A Hopeful History", Featured Post, Honoring Caregivers in the Fight Against COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Martin Luther King Jr, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Rutgar Bregman, the difficulties of change, The World After COVID-19, Winston Churchill
It feels like we have had a lifetime’s measure of challenging events in the last four months, but it seems much too early to know how things will be different when the “new normal” really arrives. The descriptors of this moment are volatility,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 26, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Avoiding the Second Wave, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, herd immunity, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Reopening the economy, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, Tom Friedman
June 26, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Frustrated, Frightened, But Hoping I have read hundreds of thousands of words about the COVID-19 epidemic. There are several great writers at The Atlantic who have provided excellent reports and analysis,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 23, 2020 | Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, John Bolton, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Polarization in America, The 2020 elections, the president's lies
What would you think if you heard someone say, “If I don’t check the weather, it won’t rain on my picnic!”? I guess the answer depends on the context. It could be a tongue in cheek joke, or it could be an expression of a very disconnected concept about how...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 19, 2020 | A personal history of social change, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, General Mark Milley, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, John Bolton's assertions, Juneteenth, Justin Locke, President Trump, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racism in America, Reopening the economy, The 2020 elections, The Triple Aim
June 19, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Is “Living On Tulsa Time” Appropriate For These Times? Donald Ray Williams is gone now, but he is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Williams sang many hit songs, but one in particular, “Tulsa Time,” written...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 16, 2020 | Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, Pandemic Management, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, President Trump, The Prehistory of our response to COVID-19, the uncertainty of ignoring pandemic prudence
In retrospect the admonition to “Beware the Ides of March,” is not an exact fit for the explosion of COVID-19 in America, but close enough. The 15th of March has a long history of being a bad day. In ancient Rome it was both a religious holiday and the day when...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 12, 2020 | Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, diseases of despair, Hope, Inequality in Healthcare, Martin Luther King Jr, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, telehealth
June 12, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Hope For Transformational Change Interesting and surprising things happen in cyberspace. I send these letters to you through a platform called WordPress. I get responses from you in two ways. Some of you just...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 9, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic inequality, George Floyd, Inequality in Healthcare, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Reopening the economy, The Great Awakening, The World After COVID-19
The header for this post should look familiar since last Friday’s post featured a very similar picture. The picture on last Friday had been taken on the previous Tuesday evening when about 200 people gathered on the New London Town Green to demonstrate their...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 5, 2020 | coronavirus, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Featured Post, General James Mattis, George Floyd, Inequality, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partnership, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change
June 5, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Never Been This Late Before Many times during my practice life I would try to have a conversation with a patient about some change in lifestyle or a choice that they might make to avoid some future...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 2, 2020 | chronic disease management, Covid-19, Economic inequality, Featured Post, George Floyd, Governor Charles Baker of Massachusetts, Inequality in Healthcare, Kerner Commission, Martin Luther King Jr, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, pre existing conditions, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Riots of 1967, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19
There is a certain wisdom in Yogi Berra’s observation that, “It is deja vu all over again.” When I was practicing I would frequently have that thought as I was trying to manage a patient with a chronic disease. Whether the problem was CHF, poorly controlled...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 29, 2020 | anti-racism, coronavirus, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Featured Post, food Insecurity, Honoring Caregivers in the Fight Against COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health
May 29, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, 100,000 And Counting With A Very Stable Genius Leading The Way This has been a very difficult week for all of us. 100,000 is a very large number of people. The Rose Bowl seats 92,542. I spent a long time...
