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 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 22, 2020 | Avoiding the Second Wave, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, Reopening the economy, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing
May 22, 2020 Dear Interested Readers: Chaos Borne Of History, Culture, Choice and COVID-19 When I was in that phase of childhood that Erickson referred to as “Industry vs. Inferiority,” somewhere between 6 and 11, I became a student and was...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 19, 2020 | Atrius Health, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Resilience, The World After COVID-19
How long has it been since you felt comfortable standing less than six feet from someone who is not a member of your household? As you look forward to Memorial Day this coming weekend or past that to the Fourth of July, or Labor Day, is it possible for you to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 12, 2020 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, Covid-19, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Pandemic Management, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19
As we move into an attempt to recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have begun to think about how the delivery of healthcare will be changed by what we have experienced. Some have suggested that the pandemic has revealed serious flaws...
