Health 3.0: Where Medicine Needs to Go
Health 3.0: Where Medicine Needs to Go. The rip-off Have you or any of your loved ones experienced our health care system lately? If so, how was that experience for you? [...]
Exile of Eros: The Real Crisis in Medicine
Exile of Eros: The Real Crisis in Medicine. So much has been said about healthcare reform in America. Much of it is political. Anything as big and complex as our healthcare [...]
The Sacred Ordinary in Health Care
The Sacred Ordinary in Health Care. Dear Caregivers, This piece isn’t dainty. Because health care is never dainty. In early 2016, my mother was hospitalized for the sudden rupture of an aneurysm [...]
Mom and medicine
Mom and Medicine: What Worries this MD. Everyone’s life is a unique, evolving story. This is mine. On April 15, 2016, my mother had a sudden rupture of a brain aneurysm. Prior to [...]
Our love for medicine
In 2014 Dr. Daniel Craviotto, an orthopedic surgeon in California, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that declared his independence from forces that would undermine the sacred patient-doctor relationship. The piece went viral, with [...]
Unique self medicine is antifragile
After reading Nassim Taleb's book Antifragile, I realized how crucial it is to apply this to medicine. So I wrote about it here. This is large enough to become its own tenet and a major addendum [...]