by Matthew Rehrl MD | Ikigai, Philosophy
Most people are familiar with the Japanese term kintsugi ( “golden joinery”), also known as kintsukuroi ( “golden repair”). At the top level, it’s considered a form of repair of a broken object which results in the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
Most everyone is familiar with Occam’s Razor, which is usually stated as “The simplest explanation is usually the right one.” or “Do not multiply entities without necessity!” (This idea also makes its appearance in medical school with this classic saying: “when you...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Philosophy, Politics
There are two of the definitions of ambivalence in the Oxford English Dictionary: Psychoanalysis and Psychology. The coexistence in one person of profoundly opposing emotions, beliefs, attitudes, or urges (such as love and hate, or attraction and repulsion) towards a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | EHR, Healthcare 3.0, Philosophy
Most people are familiar in some form with Wittgenstein’s Rabbit, a drawing where the image can be seen as both a duck or a rabbit with a shift in perspective. We may need to start thinking of healthcare in this way because I contend that with the centrality of the...
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 | 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...
