Ideas

Essays, explainers, observations

Organized into seven pillars so the body of work can grow without becoming chaotic.

Open Heart / Open Access

What Your Device Already Knows

Cardiac devices generate more information than most patients ever see explained in plain language.

The Human Being Inside the Patient

The Human Being Inside the Patient

Disease is never only physiological — what decades of treating heart patients teaches about the rest of a life.

Understanding Creates Agency

Understanding Creates Agency

Why the gap between what medicine knows and what a patient understands is the next frontier of care.

The Electrical Heart & the Craft of EP

Electrical Engineering for the Heart

What an electrophysiologist actually does, explained by someone who trained as an engineer first.

The Future of the Heart

Where Cardiac Care Is Headed

Wearables, remote monitoring, and the slow shift from reacting to disease to catching it early.

The Builder's Laboratory

Why Physicians Should Build, Not Just Prescribe

On the case for clinicians building the tools their patients actually need.

A Life Worth Protecting

What Decades of Treating Heart Patients Teaches About Mortality

On quality of life, saying goodbye, and what the job has taught him about a life well spent.