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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 27, 2019 | Biases in diagnostic thinking, Burnout, Computers In Healthcare, Critical thinking, Daniel Kahneman, Eve Shapiro, Evidence Based Medicine, Healthcare Transformation, Six Domains of Quality, The Triple Aim
Is it just a small world where connections are closer than any of us imagine? Could it be that there are forces that we don’t yet understand that create connections? Perhaps there is nothing behind connections other than random chance. All of those questions...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 23, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Brett Kavanaugh, Burnout, Featured Post, History of Healthcare Reform, Quadruple Aim, The Triple Aim
23 August 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Let’s Not Forget The Triple Aim As We Debate The Future of Healthcare I am not really complaining, but I have been waiting for a very long time. Living in expectation on the cusp of a better future is not easy. Let...