Tag: Cassandra

We know the government’s fear laden approach to opioids is wrong. We know the clinical data. We see patients struggling and the lives leaving far too soon. But no one believes us. When we speak out, our words fall silent, discredited the moment they are uttered. We sense the seething stigma. ...

To have great foresight may appear to be a blessing. But if no one believes you, then that foresight quickly becomes a curse. History is riddled with such individuals, none more famous than the mythological Cassandra, the Trojan priestess fated by the Greek God Apollo to utter prophecies that would ...

Today, I’m going to talk to you about a study at the cutting edge of modern medicine — one that uses an artificial intelligence model to guide care. But before I talk to you about that, I need to take you back to the late bronze age, to a city located on the coast of what is now Turke...

Since the 1970s, women have made tremendous gains relative to men in terms of education, labor force participation, pay equity, and occupying positions of power. Of course, inequalities still remain. Despite being sixty percent of college graduates and half of law school and medical school graduates...