We strongly believe in the democratization of knowledge, and that patients should not suffer the burden of medical training.
Our training programs help eliminate human suffering caused by variations in medical practice and poor access to learning resources within hospitals and across geographic regions. As the education arm of the 501-C3 nonprofit Foundation for the Advancement of Medicine, our training programs and educational resources are provided free of charge so doctors can help patients with lung, airway, and pleural disorders.
05/27/2026
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Greed and the Future of Medicine Greed, which ancient Greek philosophers referred to as pleonexia, is an insatiable desire to have more (wealth, possessions, power etc).
04/25/2026
Medicine is no longer defined solely by what physicians can do, but by how they assume responsibility for decisions made within increasingly structured, technology-driven systems. As artificial intelligence and clinical algorithms reshape the landscape, professional identity is quietly but profoundly changing.
Judgment, Identity, and the Age of Systems Medicine is no longer defined solely by what physicians can do, but by how they assume responsibility for the decisions they make within increasingly structured, technology-driven systems.
04/20/2026
Please see this latest edition to Bronchoscopy Academy. This lecture examines the tension between competence , judgment, and physician identity in modern medicine—and how that tension is being reshaped by technology and artificial intelligence.
Bronchoscopy Academy 1 like. "Who are we becoming? AI, Clinical Judgment, and the Future of Medicine"
04/07/2026
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Who is the Best? In my previous essay, I asked a question patients often ask, but cannot easily answer with confidence: Who is the best doctor for me? I noted that the absence of transparent risk-adjusted outcomes (results data) contributes to this uncertainty, particularly in regard to minimally invasive or invasiv...
03/29/2026
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The Disease We Romanticized—Then Forgot There is a particular stillness in the faces of Amedeo Modigliani’s portraits.
03/21/2026
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The Question Patients Cannot Answer Physicians who earn their living performing procedures are trained, above all, to intervene.
03/20/2026
Delighted to see my story, It's all in the dirt, published in CafeLit.
03/01/2026
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02/15/2026
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The Shape of Change People in general, and physicians in particular, are not always comfortable with exponential thinking.
02/10/2026
Delighted to see my story The Cookie published today in CafeLit:
CafeLitMagazine She was, however, calm and stared at the blank, white ceiling, devoid of thought. Devoid of questions. ‘I could be that ceiling,’ she thought, ‘blank, featureless, forgettable.’
