Gordon's Notes

Medicare for All won’t work in 2020. We have an insurmountable path dependency problem. We can, however, implement the ACA public option. I...

There’s been at least a 200-300% increase in care complexity between when I started medical practice and today. Many new classes of medicati...

I ordered the Greenlight cards for our children. Only one is a minor (and she uses a regular debit card) but two are special needs adults w...

My son bought me a slim book on rock climbing techniques. Rock climbing was my brother Brian’s gig , but I could see doing it when my knees ...

Robert F Kennedy Jr showed up in a scrum of pro-measles whackos recently. It  me wonder how he got so nuts. There’s an extensive wikipedia...

I am a strong-AI pessimist. I think by 2100 we’ll be in range of sentient AIs that vastly exceed human cognitive abilities  (“ skynet ”). Su...

I haven’t written recently about why Crisis 2016, sometimes called Crisis-T , happened. For that matter, why Brexit. My last takes were in 2...

In 2018 I met one of my two CrossFit Life Goals (tm) -  10 consecutive dubs (hit 42 in a wild fluke the other day). Only took me five times...

I didn’t know Sir William personally, but I think he’d be appalled by the descriptions of patient-disorders in our medical textbooks. We t...

We’ve been using Quicken for Mac for the past year. I’m satisfied with the software, but I no longer trust their pricing and renewal. We pa...

Amazon reviews have long been helpful to me, and were once a big part of Amazon’s value proposition. That is no longer true. Amazon is filt...

A week ago, in a Facebook group for CrossFit physicians, I read a post blaming poor parenting ( i.e. , poor mothering) for childhood obesity...

There’s a nasty flaw in Minnesota’s vote by mail process. When you apply for a mail ballot you are asked to provider either a SSN last 4 or...

First came CHIP - Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential  (Jan 2018) … a bizarre accumulation of mutated stem cells in bone marro...

Six years ago I wrote about browsing the blog blacklist and the need to resurface content from old blog postings . Today, even in the suppos...