by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 21, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Biases, COVID uncertainty, Equity, Hearings of House Committee on January 6, Illiberalism, Inequality in Healthcare, Inflation, MAGA, Maggie Haberman, Politics and Healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Social Determinants of Health
October 21, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Don’t Fall For The Con I am hoping that sometime before the year 2045, which will be the year of my one-hundredth birthday, we will have enjoyed great success or at least substantial progress on the three issues...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 14, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, A Promised Land By Barack Obama, Bayard Rustin, culture wars, Diane Gilworth, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Hope, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Martin Luther King Jr, political polarization, Poverty, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Transformative Politics
October 14, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Looking Back For Guidance Going Forward I am probably like a lot of Democrats who can remember the enthusiasm with which we once embraced heroes like JFK, RFK, Gene McCarthy, and even Jimmy Carter and Bill...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 7, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, Featured Post, Inflation, Social Determinants of Health
October 7, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Perilously Uncertain Times I am not a good fit for my septuagenarian demographic. I don’t watch Fox News. I do on rare occasions watch a football game on Fox, but even that’s getting rarer and rarer since I am...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 23, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, American exceptionalism, anti semitism, burnout and professional fulfillment, Dr. Kimberly Becher, Featured Post, Governor Ron DeSantis, Healthcare in Rural America, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, rural healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Holocaust, Venezuelan immigrants in Martha's Vineyard
September 23, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, What We Say, What We Do, and a Doctor Whose Actions Speak For Her My wife and I have been watching the latest Ken Burns PBS production, ”The U.S. and The Holocaust”. For over forty years, Burns has educated us...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 16, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACOs, Burnout, Dartmouth Health, Dean Robert Ebert, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare equity, improving the delivery of care, Innovation in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Primary Care Challenges, Primary Day in New Hampshire, rural healthcare, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
September 16, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Rethinking How We Deliver Care In last week’s letter, I tried to describe the disappointments and controversies currently associated with ACOs. Like a serialized Netflix presentation I want to begin by...
