The Medical Orphans – When Tests Are Normal, but Lives Aren’t
When tests are normal but patients aren’t, medicine struggles. A creflection on the “medical orphans,” uncertainty, and what it means to stay.
The Fragmented Patient: Specialization and the Loss of the Whole
Mrs. Alvarez sits in the waiting room with a purse full of appointment slips. They’re soft at the edges, creased from weeks of being handled and rehandled. Inside the purse is a worn photo of her newborn grandson. It isn’t decoration; it’s something steady to look at when the day begins to tilt…
The Statin Empire — And What Now?
In medical school, they had taught him that numbers don’t lie.
Tonight, the numbers felt like they were whispering through clenched teeth —
speaking in halves, withholding the rest.
He printed the report, folded it twice, and slipped it into his pocket.
A contradiction he wasn’t ready to resolve.
A question he knew he would carry for years.
Why So Many Men Feel ‘Off’ at Fifty — And Say Nothing
Around fifty, a surprising number of men begin to sense that something inside them has shifted — not a symptom, not an illness, just a quiet feeling that things aren’t quite the same. And most of them keep it to themselves.
This episode explores that hidden landscape: the subtle physiological changes, the stress, the disconnection, and the silence that shape the health of middle-aged men long before anything shows up on a scan.
The Heart of Power – Episode 11: The Fragile Icons
This is the 11th episode in The Heart of Power: Medical Histories from the White House, a series that looks past the legends to the bodies and pressures behind them. John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe are almost always mentioned together as rumor, as shorthand, as something half-imagined. But when I looked closer, the familiar … Read more