Proton Beam Radiation Therapy (PBRT) has burst onto the health care scene over the last decade. At cancer institutions across the country, PBRT facilities have been built at great expense. As data is collected and public awareness develops, PBRT has become the new cutting-edge treatment that cancer centers want to claim. In Washington D.C., a competition between […]
Years ago, as I began to look at medicine from the 30,000-foot perspective, a nightmarish image came into focus. It was a gradual realization. But when the image coalesced, it struck me like the hot kiss on the end of a wet fist. This image has informed all of my future expectations for medical advances […]
Just when you think you can’t stand more rain and fog on the coast of Maine, the sun comes out. It’s beautiful in the summer. It’s dazzling in winter. Here are a few photos from our walk yesterday along Sunshine Road on Deer Isle. The ice is starting to melt and you can see tidal heaving […]
One of the goals, and pleasures, of my Gap Year is to read and reflect. I recently finished Ike’s Bluff by Evan Thomas, a 484-page look at Eisenhower’s presidency seen through the lens of his nuclear weapons policy which he never fully articulated. Now what does that have to do with healthcare reform? Bear with me. It was Eisenhower’s […]
We woke up this morning to a vista of white and gray. Woolly fog. Melting snow. And the patter of rain. And more rain. I’m in a tiny town on the coast of Maine so there isn’t much to do today. There are no museums to wander in. No shopping or window gazing along technicolor […]
I’ve procrastinated, painfully, on this blog post. Here’s what happened. For the past several years I have selected three words as guides for what I want to accomplish and how I want to change in the new year. It’s a way of setting goals that I stole from several well-known bloggers (see here and here if […]
