Because Good Medicine Deserves Better Explanations
Otto Warburg believed cancer was not written in genes, but in how a cell handles energy—how it breathes, or fails to. He lived, worked, and survived inside Nazi Germany, leaving behind extraordinary science and an enduring silence that still unsettles.
A narrative nonfiction analysis of Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s disease, exploring how memory, power, and performance separated without collapse.
When tests are normal but patients aren’t, medicine struggles. A reflection on the “medical orphans,” uncertainty, and what it means to stay.
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…
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.