Ideas at the intersection.
Commentary on medicine, medico-legal practice, aerospace and healthcare.
What Makes a Good Medical Expert Witness
The best medical expert witnesses are teachers, not advocates: qualified for the question, faithful to the records and clear about what the evidence can and cannot show.
After the Space Station: Why Medicine Should Pay Attention to Commercial Orbit
NASA has opened the contest for commercial space stations. A physician and investor on why orbit matters to medicine, and what to watch.
Healthcare, Aerospace and Capital: Why the Overlap Matters
Medicine and spaceflight share more than it seems: both depend on understanding radiation, on rigorous testing, and on capital patient enough to build hard things.
Physicians as Investors: Where Clinical Judgement Helps, and Where It Doesn’t
Where clinical judgement helps physicians as investors, and where it misleads.
What Twenty-Five Years in Medicine Taught Me About Building Businesses
What the habits that keep patients safe teach about building companies that last.
Calculated Risk: A Cardiologist’s Framework for Big Decisions
Interventional cardiology weighs benefit against risk every day. The same six questions work for business and investing.
Raising Children Who Understand Ownership
Assets can be transferred with a signature. The judgement to look after them has to be taught.
What Medicine Teaches About Stewarding Family Wealth
A family office is, in many ways, the financial equivalent of continuity of care: one accurate picture, coordinated advisers and a long horizon.
What Makes an Independent Medical Opinion Useful?
In a contested claim, the value of an expert opinion lies less in its conclusion than in how clearly it shows the work behind it.
Florida’s Heart/Lung Bill: A Cardiologist’s Guide for Attorneys
Section 112.18 creates a presumption for firefighters, law enforcement and correctional officers. Understanding the medicine makes the statute easier to apply.
Radiation-Effects Testing and the New Space Economy
As launch costs fall and satellites multiply, the ability to prove electronics can survive space radiation has become critical infrastructure.
Why Continuity Matters in Concierge Medicine
The most valuable thing a physician relationship can offer may be the simplest: the same doctor, over time, who knows your history.