by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 4, 2021 | Adaptive Change, burnout and professional fulfillment, capitation, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Robert Pearl, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare Transformation, physician culture, Physician/Management "Compacts", The Triple Aim, This Is Water by David Foster Wallace, Uncaring:How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients
June 4, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, , Our Culture Is Everybody’s Problem I am sure that you have heard the expression that “culture eats strategy for lunch.” I can’t recall when I first heard the expression, but there is...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 28, 2021 | ACA, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Economic inequality, Elizabeth Warren, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Healthcare equity, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
May 28, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Hope Needs A Plan: Moving Upstream From Quality, Safety, and the Triple Aim About three paragraphs from the end of the main section of last Friday’s Healthcare Musings I wrote: Since we have not had the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 7, 2021 | Dr. Robert Pearl, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Uncaring:How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients, Zeev Neuwirth
May 7, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Dr. Pearl Says That The Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients As I was thinking about the subject for this post I was delighted to receive an email notification from my old friend and former colleague...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 13, 2021 | a personal testimony, Activism in Healthcare, Atrius Health, Biden's Transformation, Crossing the Quality Chasm, David Brooks, Dialog Across the Divide, Don Berwick, E.J. Dione, Equity, Ezra Klein, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Quality, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, The Triple Aim, transformational change
The “serious” section of Friday’s post was entitled “Preparing For Transformation.” At the end of the post after talking about the transformation that Joe Biden was trying to lead as we emerge from the pandemic I promised that I would be returning to the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 9, 2021 | ACA, Activism in Healthcare, Biden's Transformation, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality, Mass shootings as an epidemic, Politics and Healthcare, Six Domains of Quality, transformational change
April 9, 22021 Dear Interested Readers, Preparing For Transformation I have been feeling disoriented since the Biden/ Harris inauguration. For four years I had felt vulnerable to the mismanagement and outright inhumanity of a narcissistic wannabe...