by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Revenue
Roy Peter Clark, in the book Writing Tools, has a chapter called “Climb Up and Down the Level of Abstraction”, in which he discusses how powerful concrete words (the bottom of the ladder) and abstract words (the top of the ladder) are versus the bureaucratic,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Politics, Social Media, Twitter
Most of what I write and tweet about are superficially boring topics to most people. This is intentional. For example, although I happen to have fairly stable political and ethical opinions, and although I spend quite a lot of intellectual energy and capital...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Physician Career, Social Media
Consider this story from Herodotus, The Histories, which you may have run across in college: Now Periander was to begin with milder than his father, but after he had held converse by messenger with Thrasybulus the tyrant of Miletus, he became much more bloodthirsty...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
There does seem to be quite a lot of animosity out there towards BigX, where BigX includes BigPharma, BigGovernment, BigTech, BigTobacco, BigSugar, BigInsurance, BigHealth, BigAuto, BigAg, BigDefense,… All of these “BigXs” drift towards dehumanization and therefore...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Blogging
One advantage of blogging daily is that just by sheer volume, I may hit pay dirt, at the end of each month I enjoy reviewing my 30ish blog posts to see where my intellectual shovel may have hit. In February, the choice is easy. My most important blog was...
