Two more weeks until Philosophy of Medicine week! We've got a full agenda of free, virtual philmed events: a workshop on Philosophy of Diagnosis (9/14) and the International Phil Med Roundtable Conference (9/15-9/18), with >40 talks on topics like AI, medical gaslighting, disease concepts & beyond!

Register now for the 2026 International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable Conference. Talks will range from diagnosis, uncertainty, AI, and policy to measurement, extrapolation, and testimony. Visit our website to register. https://ow.ly/ZnZy50ZxGGU #philsci

Join us (virtually) on September 14 for a day-long workshop on the Philosophy of Diagnosis! What is diagnosis, who is it for, and what will become of it in the age of AI? We have an incredible line up of speakers who plan to tackle these questions. Registration is free and open at the link.

The fifth edition of Dr. Elliott Joslin’s Manual for Diabetics (1934) includes a new final paragraph, where Joslin says: hey, remember that it doesn’t matter how you die - but it does lower my statistics for the life span of diabetics if you do.

Watching my glucose while reading the 1919 edition of Joslin’s Diabetic Manual, with instructions for the starvation therapy which kept some patients with type 1 diabetes alive prior to insulin. Joslin: fasting must be “rigidly enforced with children, because with them disobedience means death.”

Continuous glucose monitors are powerful tools but will not "rectify our Bad Energy crisis." To add, #type2diabetes is due to a combination of genetics and environment as well as lifestyle. And #type1diabetes is not preventable by lifestyle. #diabetes #science www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

She left the medical mainstream and rose to be RFK Jr.’s surgeon general pick

Casey Means, the surgeon general nominee, has criticized the medical establishment. She could be put in position to change it.

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I can’t help but take it as a bad sign when the drug company feels like it’s not enough to just send you the drug, so they also start including inspirational messages (which assume that you must be sad).

In the fight to stay between the glucose lines, both the algorithm and I are struggling this morning. #typeonediabetes

Enjoyed a wonderful couple of days at the University of Uppsala thinking about what it means to be a patient and how technologies shape the concept of patienthood!

My perspective “Into the Valley of the Sick” is out today! I’ve spent a lot of time immersed in philosophical questions about disease while I have enjoyed a reprieve from my own, but the work I do about medicine will always be shaped by my own experience with it, like I share here.

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Weekend Briefing for July 26, 2025: New Images in Clinical Medicine: Neovascularization in Retinopathy of Prematurity nej.md/44MTZOY Two New Perspectives: 1️⃣ Public Policies, Social Narratives, and Health nej.md/412RDck 2️⃣ Into the Valley of the Sick nej.md/3GHb1Vz #MedSky

38 degrees F at the northwoods Minnesota cabin calls for lighting the wood-burning stove in May

Had a lovely first time attending the AAHM conference and presenting my poster on the entangled histories of the ICD and the Electronic Medical Record! #aahm2025 @aahmhistmed.bsky.social

This slide from Ilana Löwy’s Garrison lecture resonates in the history of medicine, but also across all historical disciplines. #aahm2025