by Matthew Rehrl MD | CoVid
I have just been informed of another delay—thanks to Covid—in getting a much-needed surgery. The details aren’t important. What’s important is that if my personal Covid Pandemic Story turns out to be that I had a semi-elective surgery delayed by a month...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing, Writing Habits
Strong verbs create action, save words, and reveal the players.Roy Peter Clark—Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies For Every Writer I dedicate the rest of this month to active verbs! How? During my first draft editing, I’ll identify every verb as active,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy, Writing
Here’s a definition of culture I recently read in Nietzsche’s essay David Strauss, the confessor and the writer: Culture is, above all, unity of artistic style in all expressions of the life of a people.Nietzsche Here’s one of the Oxford English Dictionary’s...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy, Physician Career
I just received the book Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations via Amazon. (Thank you Amazon!) It’s recommended reading for the one-day course An Introduction to Wittgenstein: Games, Pictures, Rules, and Therapies which I will be taking this May through...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Natural Language Processing, Physician Career
Microsoft recently purchased the speech recognition software company Nuance (Microsoft completes acquisition of Nuance, ushering in a new era of outcomes-based AI) for 16 billion dollars. At first glance, this looks like a good thing for both healthcare and...
