I loved reading Ilana Yurkiewicz's Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care, and I'm glad to have gotten to write about it for National Review. The range of treatments that doctors can offer has gotten more and more advanced. Robotic suturing tools allow surgeons to conduct delicate surgery through minimally invasive laparoscopic… Read More
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Reckoning With Reality
I got to write for National Review on why vocational education and home economics should be part of everyone's education. These tracks are exercises in truth-telling and help make good citizens. In effect, our goods are leased, not owned. Even if we’ve paid for them outright, they are designed to be beyond us and to… Read More
Lyme and Literacy in Suffering
I got to read and review Ross Douthat's memoir of Lyme disease, The Deep Places for National Review. The book is thought-provoking and unsettling. It is as much about how to endure suffering as how to address medical mysteries. In some ways, Douthat’s striving for a cure is a transposition of the same meritocratic story… Read More