Bye to Gas
This is a picture of a friend’s Tesla Model S license plate. I too have said goodbye to gas. My Model S now has 7,000 miles on it and I have not bought a gallon of gas for more than six months. Critics say the Tesla still pollutes because most of the electricity used to […]
Cancer Moonshot 2020
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiung is an amazing human being. A simple list of his accomplishments would fill this blog. Among many other things, he is leading an five-star group of companies, institutions, and scientists in an initiative called Cancer Moonshot 2020, announced in January 2016 in a White House Memorandum. The Cancer MoonShot 2020 Program is a comprehensive cancer […]
Printing Human Tissue
3-D printing has come a long way. I first saw it in an IBM laboratory in the early 1990s. It was huge and costly. The cost has plummeted. Now I have one in my workshop. I print objects using filament made from Polylactic Acid (PLA). The PLA is 1.75mm in diameter. That is about seven one-hundredths of […]
Where Does the Fraud Come From
In Health Attitude, I described cost as the largest problem in our healthcare system. One of the sources of the high cost I wrote about is fraud. I am often asked where the fraud comes from. I am sure all of us hold our doctors in high regard and would never suspect them of any untoward […]
Net Attitude and Health Attitude On Deck
I am very pleased to be sharing my thoughts about the future of the Internet and healthcare (Net Attitude and Health Attitude) at two events in Connecticut in early May. The first event will be on Sunday, May 1, at 5:30 PM at the Ridgefield Playhouse. The focus will be healthcare. For tickets and information, visit here. If you […]