by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 19, 2022 | American exceptionalism, Biases, burnout and professional fulfillment, diseases of despair, Dr. Robert Coles and the "Call of Service", Dr. Vivek Murthy, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, healthcare finance, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Healthcare Outcomes, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, RVUs, Waste in healthcare, workforce issues
August 19, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Burnout and Workforce Challenges These days, it’s hard to escape the feeling that we must have made some huge mistakes for which we are now paying the price. Most of us grew up with the myth of American...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 20, 2021 | a personal testimony, antiracism, burnout and professional fulfillment, Computers In Healthcare, connectedness, Continuous Improvement, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Lean, RVUs, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine
August 20, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Introspection, Reflection, and Anticipation. You Think and Feel Better Outdoors It’s been a difficult week for a lot of people. Fires continue to burn over large areas of the West even as we have become...
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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 22, 2019 | Democratic Presidential Debates, Featured Post, Impeachment Hearings, Listening, patient centered care, Polarization in America, St. James
22 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Listening and Speaking Across Deep Divisions I think that one of my ministers, Reverend Cindy Johnson, was anticipating the downside of all of the listening that we would be doing this week to the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 22, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), burnout and professional fulfillment, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Innovation, Moral Injury, Payment Models, Population Health, Quadruple Aim, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Watson
22 March 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Musing With Friends About Healthcare This week’s letter lives up to the title of “Healthcare Musings.” The dictionary says that musings are periods of reflection or thought. I would add that when I am...
