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…
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.