by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 19, 2019 | Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Featured Post, Letter From The Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
I had planned a quick trip to Birmingham, Alabama last week to take care of a family matter. Originally, I was scheduled to go down on Thursday afternoon and come back early on Saturday morning. Those plans were altered after the airline tragedy that finally resulted...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 12, 2019 | Community Needs Assessments, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare in Rural America, hospital closings in rural America, Population Health Management, Poverty and healthcare, The Triple Aim
In healthcare there is disappointing truth in the old saw, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” It is paradoxically true that things are changing all the time. I observe that it is often true that in reference to a particular subject or problem...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 8, 2019 | capitation, Dean Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, healthcare finance, Medicare For All, The Triple Aim
8 March 2019 Dear Interested Readers, What Medicare-For-All Can’t Fix Let me remind you of Dr. Robert Ebert’s 1965 formula for the future of healthcare in America. He lived for thirty years after this observation and did much to test his own...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 22, 2019 | Amazon and Jeff Bezos, burnout and professional fulfillment, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Medical Professionalism, The Triple Aim
22 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers Professionalism In Difficult Times It is no longer news that many doctors and nurses, as well as the healthcare professionals who provide the business and operational support for healthcare, are struggling...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 19, 2019 | Burnout, Colleagues, Culture, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, The Triple Aim
Every now and then I see an obituary or read an article in a journal that can send me back in time more than forty years in my professional life and up to seventy years in the totality of life. There is a big “scrapbook” in my brain where I log a lot of “screen time.”...