If you remember from our last episode, Abstruse Goose: Moment of Clarity 1, our plucky hero has had a moment of clarity about quantum mechanics. The clarity was brief and, sadly, it passed. He tried again months later and this time, he hung onto his moment long enough to begin fretting about quantum spin. The […]
Month: April 2011
On Friday I woke up too early with a splitting headache and chest pain. This was alarming. In the shower, I tried to come up with a list of plausible explanations, but my mind found only one: the four cups of coffee I drank the day before. I wondered, is this how a heart attack […]
I’m probably not the only one who has noticed a shift in the way we talk about health care these days. It’s no longer about patients taking the advice of their doctors. It’s about “consumers” making “choices” about care. We’re shifting away from the old model of medicine, in which doctors guided medical decisions because […]