Writing
Essays, commentary, academic work, and memoir. Some pieces are finished; some are drafts kept in public because the thinking is still moving.
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How Financial Logic is Reshaping Pediatric Access in the U.S.
This dispatch explores the ramifications of reorganizing pediatric care around financial logic.
MEDICINE · August 27, 2026
August 23, 2026
Written By: Paul Kalanithi, MD
Paul Kalanithi, MD, explores death without romanticizing it. When Breath Becomes Air is a powerful memoir because it is less about dying than about what makes a life worth living. What is important when time becomes suddenly, undeniably finite?
BOOK REVIEW
PUBLISHED
August 21, 2026
Why Changing Who Pays Won’t Fix Who Controls Care
A short argument that healthcare reform cannot stop at changing who pays the bill. The deeper problem is who holds power, how far that power has moved from the bedside, and why patients and healers need it back.
MEDICINE
PUBLISHED
May 25, 2026
Self-Published
On War, Sacrifice, and What We Owe the Dead
A reflection on war, sacrifice, grief, and the veterans who never fully came home. An argument that Memorial Day asks more of us than remembrance: it asks for reverence, service, and a life worthy of our veterans' sacrifice.
MEMOIR
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