The Heart of Power – Episode 12: The Quietest Crisis
A narrative nonfiction analysis of Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s disease, exploring how memory, power, and performance separated without collapse.
The Medical Orphans – When Tests Are Normal, but Lives Aren’t
When tests are normal but patients aren’t, medicine struggles. A reflection 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.