by David Z. Tusek, MD | Jan 1, 2021 | Articles
Dear Members, It’s dizzying to watch the NASDAQ and S&P500 reach all-time highs while a rising tide of Americans face evictions and layoffs. Our beloved Boulder County community is not immune against vacancies along Main Street, as local eateries and other small...
by David Z. Tusek, MD | Oct 16, 2020 | Articles
Dear Members, In medical school we are taught to maintain a “safe” psychological distance from our patients, and not get “too close” because caring too much may cause us to lose our scientific objectivity, and/or cause us to suffer too much in the event that...
by David Z. Tusek, MD | Sep 21, 2020 | Articles
Dear Members, In the meta-crisis of our time, despite the profound uncertainties that we face in nearly all directions, something is becoming increasingly clear: Many essential aspects of our flourishing (or even survival) are contingent upon the depth and...
by David Z. Tusek, MD | Sep 14, 2020 | Articles
Dear Members, What follows is an intro and list of show notes for an interview with Dr. Tusek, conducted by Will Sacks, for a podcast series called Evolving Earth: Exploring the Future of Technology & Humanity, in which he features interviews with leaders in the...
by David Z. Tusek, MD | Aug 17, 2020 | Articles
Dear Members, Since earning my medical degree and pledging to uphold the code of the Hippocratic Oath in 1999, I have been flooded, flayed, buffeted, and gobsmacked by a sequence of events involving the patients who had entrusted their care to me. I call them...
by David Z. Tusek, MD | Jul 21, 2020 | Articles
Why no one needs (or wants) insurance in primary care medicine. Dear Members, Many people ask why we no longer accept insurance plans at Cloud Medical? The reason is both simple and complex. We do not take our decision to disentangle our practice from...
by David Z. Tusek, MD | Jul 7, 2020 | Articles
Dear Members, In 2009, I was fortunate to receive an inspiration that came to me in a dream. I was working an ER shift in a small Colorado mountain town, after which I walked back to the apartment where I was staying and found myself pondering how many of the...
by David Z. Tusek, MD | Jun 8, 2020 | Articles
Dear Members, In these COVID-19 days, it’s as difficult as ever to make sense of the world. Are the pandemic, the global surge of protests against racial injustice, and the crisis of faith in many (if not all) of our established institutions inter-related in...
by David Z. Tusek, MD | May 25, 2020 | Articles
Dear Members, We wish you a Memorial Day full of remembrance and gratitude for those who honorably sacrificed everything so we may enjoy our many freedoms. We are happy to present the analysis of our recent Covid-19 testing project, which you can read here—and if you...
by David Z. Tusek, MD | May 11, 2020 | Articles
Dear Members, Science offers the best method for sense-making and fact-finding, particularly for investigating the material aspects of ourselves and our world. As much as we yearn to get at the truth and the cold hard facts of things, our evidence-based quest...
