Because Good Medicine Deserves Better Explanations
The sirens were still wailing as the limousine skidded to a halt at Parkland Hospital. Secret Service agents leapt out, blood on their sleeves, shouting for help. A stretcher rattled through the emergency doors with the President’s broken body. Moments later, from another car in the motorcade, came his doctor. George Gregory Burkley walked quickly … Read more
We’ve become a society defined by distraction, acceleration, and mental erosion. The fog isn’t a glitch. It’s the weather report.
Not long ago, I saw a 58-year-old man who had done “everything right.” His LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) was well controlled on a statin, his blood pressure stable, and he exercised regularly. But he carried extra weight around his waist, his triglycerides were persistently high, and a CT scan revealed clear signs of atherosclerosis in his … Read more
He knew it was coming. The way a storm announces itself in the bones.The way a man knows the land he’ll die on. Lyndon Baines Johnson had already faced the thing most men spend their lives avoiding: death. It had gripped his chest, dropped him to the bedroom floor of his Texas ranch, and whispered … Read more
The ballroom was cold in that sterile, calculated way—air conditioning cranked just high enough to keep anyone from dozing off. Still, two rows in, a man in a navy blazer blinked slowly, arms crossed, the telltale nod of jet-lagged surrender already beginning.
The projector whirred like a tired breath.