Medicine by Spreadsheet: How Patients Lost the Right to Be Patients

Think your doctor is ignoring you? Rushing you? Acting like a human clipboard? It’s not because they don’t care — it’s because healthcare has turned them into glorified clerks. Here’s what it feels like when your health gets stuck in the machinery. Remember when going to the doctor meant being seen? Listened to? Helped? Yeah….

The Flawed Response to the Opioid Crisis: A Lesson from History

  Our nation’s response to the opioid crisis has been fueled more by fear and politics than compassion and facts. Instead of learning from past failures, we’re repeating them—causing even more suffering for chronic pain patients and those truly in need. It’s time to look back, recognize the mistakes, and demand a better way forward….

Cruising Through Memory: Growing Up in Orfordville

A heartfelt and nostalgic reflection on growing up in the small village of Orfordville, Wisconsin, filled with friendship, freedom, first loves, and the unforgettable hum of a red 1964 Rambler along winding country roads. Growing up in Orfordville, a quaint village in Rock County, Wisconsin, with a population of less than 900 when I left…