Tenet 9: The driving force of Health 3.0 is love

Tenet 9: The driving force of Health 3.0 is love. What’s love got to do with it? Didn’t Tina Turner say it was just a second-hand emotion? Maybe, in fact, Tina Turner’s futile attempt to exile love from her heart points us to how similarly futile it is to exile love from

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Tenet 8: Health 3.0 affirms life, in the face of death

Tenet 8: Health 3.0 affirms life, in the face of death. My older brother, a physician himself, had just gotten off the phone and collapsed to the ground in tears. It shocked me, because he doesn’t cry. So I collapsed to the ground with him. The phone call was about our mother.

By |2022-12-23T14:35:04-06:00February 17th, 2019|Categories: Concepts|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Tenet 7: Health 3.0 is medicine in evolution

Tenet 7: Health 3.0 is medicine in evolution. Photo by Ashes Sitoula / Unsplash Health care evolves. We can see this happen from the outside — and on the inside. From the outside, medicine has been evolving since we humans started existing. Traditional Chinese medicine, the Siddha and Ayurveda medicine of India, the

By |2019-02-21T13:05:17-06:00September 22nd, 2018|Categories: Concepts|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Tenet 6.7: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile – skin in the game of health care

Tenet 6.7: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile – skin in the game of health care. I’m naked and exposed now.  And that’s the way I want it to be. After running my gastroenterology practice under the traditional insurance model for over ten years, I came out of all insurance networks in April 2016. It

By |2018-09-23T07:55:13-05:00October 19th, 2017|Categories: Concepts|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Tenet 6.6: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile – the neomania and noise of Health 2.0

Tenet 6.6: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile – the neomania and noise of Health 2.0. The Health 2.0 Meetup group in town was all about the new era of health care.  An era of digital health.  Patient-centric crowdsourcing.  Interoperability.  And the greatest cure of them all for our dysfunctional health care

By |2017-10-19T09:27:28-05:00October 19th, 2017|Categories: Concepts|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Tenet 6.5: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile – hormesis in health care

Tenet 6.5: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile – hormesis in health care. There is nothing more Finnish than a sauna. There is nothing less Finnish than me. But I’ve become fascinated with the sauna.  I haven’t been in one yet.  But it’s calling to me. Explain sauna to a guy living

By |2017-10-19T09:19:25-05:00October 19th, 2017|Categories: Concepts|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Tenet 6.4: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile – the via negativa approach

Tenet 6.4: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile – the via negativa approach. I often feel like we’re making health care reform way too complicated.  We can become more antifragile in health AND cut health care costs tremendously by practicing what Nassim Taleb in Antifragile calls via negativa, or the negative road.  Via negativa means that we

By |2022-12-23T19:43:32-06:00October 19th, 2017|Categories: Concepts|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Tenet 6.3: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile – health care IS NOT complex, like you think it is

Tenet 6.3: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile – health care IS NOT complex, like you think it is. The picture above is the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  Depending on who’s counting, it’s 10,000 to 20,000 pages of regulations long. Do you think this leads to better health care? As Nassim Taleb

By |2022-12-23T19:36:03-06:00October 19th, 2017|Categories: Concepts|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Tenet 6.2: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile — options trading in health care

Tenet 6.2: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile — options trading in health care. I dropped a hundred dollars into some tech stock the first time I started trading options on a friend’s advice in the late 90s. In a month I made a thousand dollars. That was a lot of money for a

By |2018-09-23T07:49:52-05:00June 8th, 2017|Categories: Concepts|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Tenet 6.1: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile — the problem of too big to fail

Tenet 6.1: Health 3.0 promotes the antifragile — the problem of too big to fail. I volunteer some time teaching gastroenterology trainees at my alma mater. The senior ones seeking a job will ask me what group I’m with. I tell them the group of me, myself, and I. They have a look of

By |2018-09-23T08:16:39-05:00June 6th, 2017|Categories: Concepts|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments
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