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As a physician who is neither young nor old, I can appreciate the timelessness of this sort of professional grousing: The young who know but cannot do; the old who do but are no lo…

Receiving VIP care sounds like an unalloyed good, but it’s more complicated. Mortality for some conditions is higher on VIP floors because nursing is geared towards hospitality ove…

Principles of Neural Science by Kandel et al Molecular Biology of The Cell by Alberts et al Janeway’s Immunobiology Robbin’s Pathologic Basis of Disease All of these books are extr…

I appreciate that some Nobel selections, like this one, are for core biological discoveries rather than hot topics. How our bodies perceive / interface with the world is fundamenta…

An important 2012 study found that higher patient satisfaction is correlated with higher costs and death. This is not counter intuitive if one has practiced medicine. Point being t…

Reduced power and cost requirements are critical for this technology to be viable for low middle income country (LMIC) settings, particularly in rural areas. In many sub-Saharan co…

Bruce chaired my PhD committee- he was a gentle and thoughtful person. An observation about his approach to science, which I thought was distinctive: he was interested in a big, fu…