What they catch when I'm not teaching.
My son told his brother he was "slammed." He's in elementary school. Kids don't copy our lectures; they copy the exhale.
Issue #12 · Jul 26, 2026 · 4 min
Medicine from the inside
Medicine looks different from inside the room than it does in the abstract. These are the notes from that vantage - what training and practice have shown me about how the body actually behaves, where clinical certainty ends, and what a physician sees that a headline does not.
Is it cheating?
At a graduation party, someone whispered that a friend was "on the shot." Then she turned to me: isn't it cheating? A doctor's honest answer, at the table.
Issue #10 · Jul 11, 2026 · 4 min
I count backwards for a living.
Count backwards from one hundred. Almost nobody makes it past ninety-four. A note from the far side of the drapes on what people surrender when they go under.
Issue #8 · Jun 27, 2026 · 4 min
Research only
A lifelong needle-phobe was quietly injecting himself every week at a backyard cookout. What GLP-1s are doing to how we talk about our bodies in public.
Issue #3 · May 23, 2026 · 4 min