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Now What Do I Do?

When the Healthcare System Lets You Down Several years ago a promising baseball pitcher in his twenties was destined for stardom. He had...

I Need a New Doctor. Now What?

The letter arrived out of the blue like a notice from the IRS about an upcoming audit. The letter went something like this: Dear Valued...

The Asteroid That Destroyed Healthcare as We Knew It

We humans survived on the grassy plains of East Africa millions of years ago by the power of community. The power of connectedness....

What Dorothy Said to Toto

In the 1939 iconic musical fantasy, Wizard of Oz, Dorothy cradles her little dog Toto when a tornado transports them from her home state...

What Our Prehistoric Ancestors Taught Us about Social Connection (and Why COVID Changed All That)

Let us turn back the clock several million years. We humans survived in small groups of families and clans. We sat around campfires, we...

Life after COVID (Spoiler alert: not much different) but Medical Care Is Changed Forever

Our nightmare of death and misery is over a year old now. We live with spikes and plateaus, shots and deniers, masks and distancing,...

The Doctor in the Mouse: Why telemedicine is the one stunningly hopeful change COVID has created

As COVID infections spread in mid-2020, and as isolating was recognized as the path to prevention, patients were reluctant to show up for...