by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 10, 2023 | A story from my life, Adaptive Change, Atrium Health, Consolidation in healthcare, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Health in America, Healthcare in Rural America, improving the delivery of care, Medical Professionalism, Primary Care, the difficulties of change, Wisconsin Health Atlas
March 10, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About How Things Have Changed and Hopefully Will Continue To Change My wife and I have just returned from a trip to my mother’s hometown in North Carolina where I spent many happy summer days as a child. Our trip...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 24, 2023 | Black History Month, COVID uncertainty, Economic inequality, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden's coordination of the west's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty and healthcare, President Volodymyr Zelensky’, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, VUCA
February 24, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, A Potpourri Of Anniversaries and Observations I apologize for making a self-congratulatory statement, but anniversaries are meaningful. This is the fifteenth anniversary of these Friday letters. There has been...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 10, 2023 | 2024 elections, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Elizabeth Warren, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Life Expectancy, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's war in Ukraine, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Social Determinants of Health, State of the Union Address, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The New Hampshire presidential primary
February 10, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, President Biden Had A Lot To Say, And He Said It Well. I hate to say it, but I have got a feeling that the near-term likelihood of the improvement of the health of America is dependent upon the political future...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 3, 2023 | Dartmouth Health, DeSantis attacks diversity, Dr. Robert Ebert, Equity, Featured Post, Gun Violence, Health in America, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Healthcare's report card, Inclusion, Life Expectancy, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, The Triple Aim
February 3, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, At 11:31 AM on Tuesday, it was 23 degrees where I live. I was enjoying the almost cloudless sky and bright sunlight. I was out “early” for my walk because the temperature was falling fast. I knew it would be less than...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 27, 2023 | 2022 midterm elections, 2024 elections, ACA, Consolidation in healthcare, COVID, Dartmouth Health, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare in Rural America, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, patient centered care, Social Determinants of Health, Staffing issues in rural healthcare, Value Based Reimbursement
January 27, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Financial Troubles, Workforce Concerns, Access Issues, and Concerns For Quality of Care One of my biggest post-pandemic surprises is that healthcare has moved down, not up, on the cascade of concerns that worry...
