Germinal Windows

Germinal Windows

The land I live on had a wildfire in 2008. After ten years of drought, on the day after a lightning storm on a hot July day, a thousand acres of timbered canyons burned.  In a place that gets a scant twelve to fourteen inches of rain a year, I thought we’d lose...
The Syndemics of Health

The Syndemics of Health

Understatement: the pandemic brought the value of health into sharp relief. The value of health itself—so often assumed—became tangibly essential when all of us were vulnerable, when there wasn’t a pill, when we couldn’t get toilet paper or food or an appointment to...
There are two sentences: Pick one

There are two sentences: Pick one

A friend of mine is a chief strategy officer for a big health system, upwards of 20 billion dollars. He’s been around the block—ICU nurse, hospital president, system executive. He’s impeccably good at his job, and he won’t do anything less than impeccable work. He’s...