by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 12, 2024 | 2024 elections, A personal history, ACA, Atrius Health, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Continuous Improvement, Costs, Dartmouth Health, eclipse of the sun, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, Path of Totality, Politics and Healthcare, Public Option, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
April 12, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, I Don’t Understand Why Healthcare Isn’t A Top Political Issue My adventures in healthcare continued this week with my much-anticipated first post-op appointment with my surgeon at Dartmouth which was three weeks...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 5, 2024 | 2024 elections, Activism in Healthcare, Equity, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Martin Luther King Jr, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Universal Basic Income, Where Do We Go From Here?
April 5, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, What Dr. King’s Experience Might Suggest About Improving Healthcare April 4, 1968, seems a lifetime ago, and yet I remember it more clearly than most days of the last year. If you had asked me where Dr. King was, I...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 2, 2024 | 2024 elections, A personal history, ACA, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Featured Post, Global Warming, Groundhog Day/film, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, Proposal for a new Federal Healthcare Board, Simpler, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, The Triple Aim, Tom Daschle, Wicked Problems, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
February 2, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Is Healthcare Trapped In Its Own Groundhog Day Cycle? My local newspaper has become a fertile field of thought and ideas for me. Last Monday, The Valley News, my local paper, had a front-page article that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 19, 2024 | A personal history, Charles Kenney, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Featured Post, Global Warming, Life Expectancy in America, Massachusetts Blue Cross, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The 2024 Presidential Election, The Best Practice: How The New Quality Movement Is Transforming Medicine, The LEAD project of Blue Cross, The moral sensibilities of medical practice, The New Hampshire Primary, the plight of small town newspapers, The Valley News, TQM, transformational change
January 19, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, An Interesting Article In My Local Newspaper Small-town newspapers are a dying public resource. A recent report from the PBS News Hour begins: Over the past few decades, more than 2,000 newspapers across...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 5, 2024 | 2024 elections, A story from my life, Conflict in Gaza, democracy versus illiberalism, election scenarios, Featured Post, Global Warming, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, healthcare disparities, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Nikki Haley, Putin's war in Ukraine, Social Determinants of Health, The New Hampshire presidential primary
January 5, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, A Surprising Event At The Beginning of a Pivotal Year I have observed presidential campaigns for a long time. I well remember watching the 1952 presidential nominating conventions on our recently acquired black...
