Leaving the Crystal Shop
Thinking about the end of residency takes me to this spot in The Alchemist, where The Boy quietly slips out of the crystal shop. "The boy...
Rediscovering the patient-consumer through telemedicine
Telehealth is projected to be a $19.5 billion market by 2025. The American Telemedicine Association’s 2018 message marks the movement of...
The only real way to (begin to) fix the patient-doctor relationship
Is there a physician you consider to be “your doctor?” Do you feel like this doctor is invested in you, and knows you/your family well...
TEDMED 2017 - Limitless in a Limited World
I remember lamenting as a child that I was born too late and all the interesting problems of the world were already solved. I would never...
10 Healthcare innovations on my fantasy wish-list
In anticipation of TEDMED in 2 weeks, here is my fantasy list of healthcare innovations and changes, practicality be damned: An EHR that...
Thoughts from ATA Edge 2017
An abbreviated list of thoughts from attending the American Telemedicine Association Edge 2017 conference. In no particular order: Wow,...
Natural disasters in the time of Telemedicine
My S.O is a physician working in Houston, and he missed Hurricane Harvey over the weekend, being out of town for a conference. The...
On Iquitos, 3 months later
On a particularly sultry day in a hospital of the Peruvian Amazon, I found myself with the task of telling a group of parents that their...
The Drawing Board
It’s a curious time to be a doctor. Dickensian openings come to mind – the best of times, the worst of times; the height of free-thinking...