by Matthew Rehrl MD | EHR, Health, Healthcare 3.0
Being a patient with a significant medical problem (or problems) is something new for me. For the majority of my life, I haven’t needed to engage with the healthcare system—but time waits for no man, and some decline in health is inevitable. It’s certainly...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
In his book, The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Now Know about Science, History and the Mind, the philosopher A.C. Grayling makes the claim “in plain sober truth, without overstatement, science is humanity’s greatest intellectual achievement.” This may well be true;...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Writing Habits
My ten-year Twitter Anniversary: February 18th, 2022. I have tweeted over 16,000 times, which means on average I have tweeted just over 4 tweets/day for the past ten years. This doesn’t mean I am a Twitter or social media expert, but it is something—at the least, a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
I’ve always wondered why Nietzsche went from an academic, classical philologist to what can best be described as the anti-academic philosopher. Was this a gradual evolution, a pivot, or a radical change? Well, there may be some clues to be found in his Untimely...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing Habits
Here are several of the definitions of “to forage” from the Oxford English Dictionary: 1. To collect forage from; to overrun (a country) for the purpose of obtaining or destroying supplies; to lay under contribution for forage. Also in wider sense, to...
