Gordon's Notes

I have a dark past. I asked questions. In class. Lots of questions. Too many questions. I hear things, I get ideas, I notice gaps, I ask que...

My favorite CME source, the  Curbsider's  Podcast, has long offered CME credit for internists (they are, after all, an internal medicine...

The NYT has a readable summary of Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman’s US income research . Much of it is familiar, but I was ...

How, a friend asked, did I come up with the 40% number for “mass disability” that I quoted in  After Trump: reflections on mass disability i...

My daughter attends an urban high school. I think it is minority white (she’s not white). Her school has a mixed reputation. It’s effective...

Set aside the neo-Klan-Nazi minority. Set aside the truly despicable  - Coulter, Hannity, Falwell and the like. Forget the hell-spawn who th...

I’ve been out of clinical practice for about 17 years. On the other hand I have a current license and I did well on my board exams a few mon...

Donald Trump as the voice of the non-college 50% . TNC on the mass (black) incarceration society - and reparations . Hundreds of colleges p...

I’m taking my family medicine board exams one last time . This is not entirely sensible. It’s been 21 years since I did family medicine, an...

I have a problem with the way medicine describes diseases. It’s not a new problem - it’s bugged me since about my third year of medical scho...

Being new-old means learning to be deliberative about things that were once opportunistic. I used to get my exercise whenever I could — now...

My son is starting to do … physics. It is fair to say I am more excited about this than he is. There is a reason I have a copy of the 1973 ...

My daughter and I are using “Holt” [1] Mathematics Course 3 for her summer math work. It’s quite a good printed textbook; a used 2007 editio...

As a kid I wanted to read the encyclopedia - from A to Z. We couldn’t afford an encyclopedia though , so I had to make do with the dictiona...

My oldest wants to learn to play drums. Learning is difficult for him, and the Smart Music program his school uses is obviously too sophisti...

Do you have a lousy French accent? Never fear, it's better than mine. What we need is a victim, a native speaker, who will type whateve...

We survived our monster spring break trip to Florida ( example ), so now it is time to think about how to make our children miserable this s...

Medicine is barely evidence based, so it's not surprising that education is not.  Research is expensive, and kids are so variable that e...

A few weeks ago Minnesota got some app.net attention. Alas, it was because we looked a bit silly ... Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Ci...

William Baumol was born in 1922 . In 2012, 90 years later, he's listed as first author on a new book :  The Cost Disease: Why Computers ...