by Matthew Rehrl MD | Book Reviews, Writing
The book A History of PI by Petr Beckmann (1971) is what I call a role-model book, the type of book I would love to write myself. Apart from giving a nice step by step history of the mathematics behind pi, starting with Mesopotamia and ending with the current period...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Ethics
The more Black & White photography I shoot the more I realize how rare it is to have a photograph that has something which truly all black or truly all white. Nearly everything is simply a different shade of gray.
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Ethics, Philosophy
One of my long-term writing goals is to write a treatise on the ethics of AI in healthcare. But to pursue this I realized I had to first clarify what I meant by healthcare, which then led me to consider the definition of health, and finally, so I can recognize a good...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Habit, Mind
What is deep reading? Here are some definitions mined from the internet: Deep reading is the active process of thoughtful and deliberate reading carried out to enhance one’s comprehension and enjoyment of a text. Richard Nordquist (ThoughtCo) Deep reading, also...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Ethics, Writing
Whenever I run across controversies around words, a common occurrence now thanks to social media, I tend not to weigh in too quickly, if at all; rather, I like to start with the basics—the word’s etymology and dictionary definition. Take the word hesitancy. In the...
