A patient is more than a collection of well-arranged data points or a series of symptoms to be decoded. The rise of medical technology aides such as IBM’s Watson, which can sort through libraries of medical data in a matter of moments, has led some to speculate...
Modern medicine is nothing short of present-day magic; hard-earned and studied for sure, but miraculous nonetheless. Long years of study and research have allowed physicians to heal conditions that would have been fatal only a decade or two ago. In abstract, the...
In the space of a few months, Americans have seen a decade’s worth of disaster. Countless homes and lives were destroyed in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma; to this day, many of those living in Puerto Rico are still living without without power or easy...
This is a continuation of a previous post published on Robert’s blog. Let’s hop across the pond to France for a moment. Widely accepted as having one of the best healthcare systems in the world, France requires its citizens to enroll in government-funded...
Not too long ago, I struck up a conversation while waiting in line at the pharmacy counter. The woman I spoke to was middle-aged, with brown hair and tired eyes. This was around the peak of media controversy about the ACHA, so we ended up chatting about our respective...
