by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 31, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Activism in Healthcare, Burnout, Costs, Dr. David Shulkin, Dr. Samuel Shem, Empathy, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Population Health, The Triple Aim, Zeev Neuwirth
31 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers: Between The Way Things Were And What They Might Become As I write this edition of “Healthcare Musings,” the Senate trial of President Trump stumbles toward its conclusion. It is difficult for me to accept...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 14, 2020 | burnout and professional fulfillment, Franz Jägerstätter, patient centered care, Professionalism, The Care Experience, workforce issues
The Oscar nominations for 2020 were presented yesterday. Did the nominations match up with the list of recent films and performances that you thought were most noteworthy? As I looked at the list, and thought about the movies that I have seen, I realized that I...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 3, 2020 | Angus Deaton and Anne Case, Depression, diseases of despair, Empathy, Inequality, Life Expectancy, Primary Care Challenges, Universal Access
3 January 2020 Dear Interested Readers, What Is Our Role In Addressing The Diseases of Despair? In 2015 we were all shocked to learn from the Nobel prize winning work of Angus Deaton of Princeton University and his wife Anne Case, who is also a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 17, 2019 | A Wonderful Day In The Neighborhood, Burnout, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partnership, Mr. Rogers, patient centered care, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Tom Junod
I am not a movie critic. This will be the first “review of a movie” that I have written. Many movies these days are not worth the time one must invest to watch them, but I can look back with great fondness on many movies. I connect some of them to important...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 10, 2019 | "Medical Taylorism", burnout and professional fulfillment, Continuous Improvement, Critical thinking, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Population Health, Process Improvement, Six Domains of Quality, The Triple Aim, Time as a commodity in healthcare
I recently read Dr. Jerome Groopman’s marvelous 2007 book, How Doctors Think. His book caused me to refocus on the importance of “time” as we consider the complexities of healthcare, and look for solutions that will promote our quest for the Triple Aim. The book came...