Can Venture Capital and Medicine Share the Same Priorities?
When investment enters healthcare, innovation accelerates.. but so do new incentives.
When investment enters healthcare, innovation accelerates.. but so do new incentives.
Medicine, writing, and meaning (not job titles) now sit at the center of my days. A retired physicians shares his thoughts.
Physicians often delay therapy for years because medicine teaches them to minimize their own suffering, long before they ever become patients.
Patients increasingly appear on physicians’ social media feeds, often during some of their most vulnerable moments. When does education become marketing, and is consent enough?
Medicine demands informed consent for clinical risks, so why doesn’t it require informed consent for financial ones?
Physicians don’t have to choose between devotion to medicine and the rest of their lives.
The old guard may be retiring, but the question is whether medicine still creates the conditions that allowed them to thrive.
Burnout may begin long before a physician sees their first patient, with the debt required to become one.
Becoming an advocate for an aging parent is one of life’s greatest role reversals, bringing unexpected grief, responsibility, and opportunities for deeper connection.
A psychiatrist reflects on how the World Cup reveals our deep need for belonging, shared emotion, and human connection in an increasingly fragmented world.
What do scrubs actually symbolize once a physician leaves the hospital?
The most important thing you’ll learn about a physician may have nothing to do with the stethoscope, and everything to do with what’s sitting on the shelf behind them.
Caring for aging parents while raising a family can leave you wondering what’s wrong with you. A psychiatrist suggests asking a different question.
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