by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 21, 2019 | Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality, Population Health, Poverty, Sister Joan Chittister, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
21 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Critical Choices and Uncommon Courage I have a new “hero,” guru, and role model. She is Sister Joan Chittister, an 83 year old Benedictine nun. Her latest book, The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage has...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 14, 2019 | "Wicked Problems" in Healthcare, burnout and professional fulfillment, Computers In Healthcare, Future of Heathcare, patient centered care, Sustainability
14 June 2019 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Not All About Us An interested reader contacted me this week for some advice about an inspirational speaker for her medical group. They are celebrating practice values as a part of an effort to fight burnout and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 11, 2019 | a personal testimony, and Underuse of Care, Burnout, Delivery, Healthcare in 2019, Medical Quality, Practice Improvement, Professional Satisfaction, The Triple Aim
In 1991 William Hurt starred in an interesting movie called “The Doctor.” The plot was simple. A highly skilled and well respected, but egotistical and self centered surgeon gets cancer. You follow him through his discovery of compassion as he contends with his own...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 4, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Economic inequality, Healthcare as a Right, Justice Democrats, Medicare For All, New Consensus, Rihanna Gunn Wright, The Green New Deal
Sometimes it feels to me like there are too many balls in the air. Back when I was practicing medicine, a time that is quickly fading from view as I try to use the rearview mirror of memory, I would categorize my colleagues by the way they approached problems as...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 28, 2019 | burnout and professional fulfillment, Colleagues, David Brooks, Healthcare Transformation, hyper individualism, relationalism, Robert Greenleaf, servant leadership, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life
One big benefit of being a part of “community” is to be the recipient of the concern of others when something does not go as expected. I know that many faithful readers were scratching their heads wondering what might have happened when by 3:30 last Friday they had...