Functional medicine is a type of medical care that focuses on nutrition, lifestyle, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. The...

One of my favorite parts about being a hospitalist (a physician that takes care of sick patients in the hospital) is the wisdom that I am...

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At Wander Medicine, we ask a few simple questions of ourselves every day: 1) Would we want to be a patient at Wander Medicine? 2) Would...

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Elon Musk is redefining how we make automobiles, rockets, and even how we engineer things in general. I wanted to share some of his core...

Background Planet earth's climate and health are being destabilized from human activity. Pollution and habitat destruction are to blame....

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Healthcare in the United States is failing. The costs are obscene, and the results are suboptimal. Meanwhile there is absolutely no...

Our food production system in the United States is broken. We aggressively till the soil releasing carbon every year. We then fertilize...

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William E Brandenburg, MD June 14, 2019 Introduction In my third year of residency, I spent some time in the Peruvian Amazon studying...

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Growing up in the Pacific Islander “Pasifika” culture, there was no word for “suicide” or “mental health”. It was just “ma’I," which...

I have admired Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for years and have long considered her an incredible role model to people everywhere. With her...