by Matthew Rehrl MD | Digital Trust Networks
In the concise and excellent 2018 article What Is Trust, by Paul Thagard Ph.D., he identifies five candidate definitions for trust: Trust is a set of behaviors, such as acting in ways that depend on another.Trust is a belief in a probability that a person will behave...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Book Reviews, Philosophy
I just finished reading The Universe Speaks in Numbers, by the physicist Graham Farmelo. It’s a great week’s read for those people interested in the relationship between math and science, and it borders on a must-read for those younger people interested in STEM,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing, Writing Habits
Everyone should have a spot, especially writers. Somewhere away from the home. A place to walk to, a place to think, a place to read or a place to write. Here’s one of my favorite spots. (Photo above). Meydenbauer Bay Park on Lake Washington, 2 blocks from my...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Writing
Should I blog more often—or even exclusively—in the first person? The author of the classic writing guide Writing Well would say yes: “Writers are obviously at their most natural when they write in the first person. Writing is an intimate transaction between two...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Big Data, EHR, Healthcare Ethics
I have no emotional attachment to the number known as BMI—the Body Mass Index. When I see it in print I feel neither pleasure nor anger, joy nor despair, hope nor fear. It is an index—a mathematical trick that lives in the same part of my brain as other indexes: the...
