Enough. "You just felt this huge mass in your belly now?” That’s what I asked my father about six months ago. He called that morning to tell me he was feeling something hard in his belly, and it looked “asymmetric.” I drove over to my parents’ house and examined my dad’s abdomen. [...]
Join the Health 3.0 Navy. The picture above is my own neighborhood. Our home stayed dry, but many of my neighbors weren’t so fortunate. Many have been so generous in donating to Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Your efforts have helped our fellow neighbors start to recover. On behalf [...]
Tenet 6.7: Health 3.0 is Antifragile – Skin in the Game of Health Care. I’m naked and exposed now. And that’s the way I want it to be. After running my gastroenterology practice under the traditional insurance model for over ten years, I came out of all insurance networks in April 2016. [...]
Tenet 6.6: Health 3.0 is Antifragile – The Neomania and Noise of Health 2.0. The Health 2.0 Meetup group in town was all about the new era of health care. An era of digital health. Patient-centric crowdsourcing. Interoperability. And the greatest cure of them all for our dysfunctional health care system: [...]
Tenet 6.5: Health 3.0 is Antifragile – Hormesis in Health Care. There is nothing more Finnish than a sauna. There is nothing less Finnish than me. But I’ve become fascinated with the sauna. I haven’t been in one yet. But it’s calling to me. Explain sauna to a guy living in [...]
Tenet 6.4: Health 3.0 is Antifragile – The Via Negativa Approach. I often feel like we’re making health care reform way too complicated. We can become more antifragile in health AND cut health care costs tremendously by practicing what Nassim Taleb in Antifragile calls via negativa, or the negative road. Via [...]
Tenet 6.3: Health 3.0 is Antifragile – Health Care IS NOT Complex, Like You Think It Is. The picture above is the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Depending on who’s counting, it’s 10,000 to 20,000 pages of regulations long. Do you think this leads to better health care? As Nassim Taleb sees [...]
What creates a happy doc? Photo by Sergio Rola / Unsplash Forgive me. I'm retooling this site...while helping my father negotiate his way through major abdominal surgery. So if you see some construction debris around here, don't let it distract you. We're back in the Matrix of our health care [...]
Tenet 6.2: Health 3.0 is Antifragile — Options Trading in Health Care. I dropped a hundred dollars into some tech stock the first time I started trading options on a friend’s advice in the late 90s. In a month I made a thousand dollars. That was a lot of money for a guy [...]
Tenet 6.1: Health 3.0 is Antifragile — The Problem of Too Big to Fail. I volunteer some time teaching gastroenterology trainees at my alma mater. The senior ones seeking a job will ask me what group I’m with. I tell them the group of me, myself, and I. They have a look of “does [...]