In 2015, I was struggling to escape my education to find new ways of thinking about the chronic disease problem. At the time, my colleague Steve Best and I were meeting regularly to free-associate and follow our trains of thought as they wandered...
I stared blankly at the website’s flashing cursor. Maggie was 103 years old when she died. She had no medical problems. One winter, she started staying in bed more, then died six weeks later. Completing her death certificate felt impossible. The...
Today’s Perspective When a patient comes to me with a health complaint, I listen. When it’s my turn to impart advice on what to do about the patient’s problem, what are the tools in my proverbial doctor’s bag? When it comes to chronic diseases like...