The most profound sage of the digital age, Marshall McLuhan, had some of the best lines. Here’s one that had taken this pandemic for me to finally understand: “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” Well, it’s a side mirror in this…

This World AIDS Day, two-years after the first pandemic of the 21st century, we are presented with a unique opportunity. We can demonstrate to the world that collectively, humans can rise above the politics of division, and unite in response to the defining public health emergency of the 20th century…

With illnesses from which one does not fully recover, a phase transition occurs. There is a shift from majority to minority status, and the shift can be abrupt; from walking in the door for a doctor’s appointment with one status, and coming out moments later with another. …