8/17/20    |    THE “10 HEARTBREAKS”

8/17/20    |    THE “10 HEARTBREAKS”

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 my...
7/21/20    |    TOASTERS & TORNADOS

7/21/20    |    TOASTERS & TORNADOS

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...
6/8/20    |    A NEW NORTH STAR

6/8/20    |    A NEW NORTH STAR

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 some way?...