Peptides, Enhancement, and Ethics: What Doctors Owe Their Patients and Themselves
A patient sits across from me, asking about peptides for muscle recovery and anti-aging. “I’ve been reading about BPC-157 and CJC-1295,” he says. “My training partner swears by them. Can you prescribe these?” This is the moment where medicine intersects with ethics, performance, and enhancement. And honestly? These conversations are getting more common—and more complicated. The Rise of […]
From Burned-Out Internist to Competing Physician: How Performance Changed My Medicine
I was 20 pounds overweight, chronically exhausted, and running on coffee and willpower. As an internal medicine hospitalist, I spent 12-hour shifts managing other people’s health crises while my own body was quietly falling apart. The irony wasn’t lost on me. One night, after another brutal shift, I caught my reflection in the hospital bathroom […]
Why Root-Cause Medicine Is the Only Honest Way to Practice in 2025
It was 2 AM, and I was staring at another prescription pad. The patient in front of me—exhausted, in pain, desperate for answers—had been through five specialists already. Each one had ordered tests, written scripts, and sent her on her way. And now she was in my office, hoping I’d be different. But I wasn’t. […]