Whether you ride a bike or not, it turns out that we’re all cyclists. Self-fueling, self-fulfilling prophecies are a long-standing tradition in human history, but lately we’ve developed new cycling skills. Witness the media coverage cycle, where topics are washed, rinsed and hung out to dry. Consider election cycles, driven by legions of paid consultants [...]

No matter what your individual experience has been since the new millenium dawned, it’s relatively safe to say that things certainly haven’t been boring. Events of uncommon scale and scope have permeated, punctuated and often punctured our lives, and the health and human services sector has seen its own share of instability, conflict, pressures and [...]

What’s in a word so often depends on its context, so imagine how much fun you can have introducing a contentious word into the roiling world of health care. The longer the word is the better, because it turns out that words with few letters have the most definitions. The winner in this regard is [...]