by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 17, 2026 | ACA, AI in healthcare, ChatGPT, Consumerism in Healthcare, Corporatization of U.S. Healthcare, David W. Johnson, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Healthcare Inc., Paul Krugman, Paul Kusserow, Politics and Healthcare, Quintuple Aim, Social Determinants of Health, The Coming Healthcare Revolution, The Public Option, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, workforce issues
July 17, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Could Positive Change Be Possible Through Market Forces? On my birthday and at Christmas, I frequently get bow ties and books as gifts. I wasn’t expecting anything for my birthday this year because there was no...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 10, 2026 | ChatGPT, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare under Trump, No Kings protest, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Our 250th National Birthday, physician signers of the Declaration of Independence, Politics and Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The Declaration of Independence, The Triple Aim, Trump's attempts to expand the presidency, Trump's undermining of healthcare
July 10, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Physicians and The Declaration of Independence: Redux When I signed off on my second attempt at last week’s letter discussing the participation of physicians who signed the Declaration of Independence, I thought it...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 3, 2026 | A story from my life, ChatGPT, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Dr. Matthew Thornton, Featured Post, Fourth of July, My mistake, Our 250th National Birthday, Physicians as politicians and public leaders, Vaccination of the Continental Army of George Washington
July 3, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Oops! I goofed! An unfinished version of this letter appeared in your email on Wednesday. Maybe it was the heat. Maybe it was evidence of intellectual decline. For whatever reason, I inadvertently released a rough...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 12, 2026 | A personal history, Atul Gawande, Dr. Edward M. Hundert, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Medical School, medical education, Politics and Healthcare, What I learned ar my class reunion, Wildflowers
June 12, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Interesting Changes In Medical Education If you read my letter from last Friday, you know that I was writing from Boston, where my wife and I had gone for my medical school class reunion. Our minds play tricks on...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 5, 2026 | 2026 mid term elections, 2028 elections, ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Medical School, Medicare For All, One Big Beautiful Bill-OBBB, Paul Krugman, The future of healthcare under Trump
June 5, 2026 Dear Interested Readers, Paul Krugman, Round 3 This week’s letter completes a three-part review of Paul Krugman’s series on the potential for healthcare to be a defining issue in the 2026 mid-term elections and the 2028 presidential...
