Writing

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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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Who Holds the Power?

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.

ESSAY · August 21, 2026

  • June 14, 2026

    Self-published

    What Medicine Is For

    Notes toward a question that keeps refusing to stay answered

    An attempt to ask the simplest question in medicine without accepting the answers the institution supplies by default.

    PHILOSOPHY

    PUBLISHED

  • November 9, 2025

    Working paper

    The Phenomenology of Suffering

    Illness as a reorganization of the lived world

    Reading illness through embodiment and perception rather than pathology alone.

    ACADEMIC

    PUBLISHED