Galileo Galilei

By John Joseph Pack MD

Francis Weld Peabody MD

The Wellness Visit

By John Joseph Pack MD

A darkly comic short story exposing the absurdities of modern healthcare bureaucracy, The Wellness Visit follows an overburdened patient and an oblivious nurse through a disastrous “wellness” exam—where billing codes outweigh compassion, diagnoses multiply, and the line between care and commerce vanishes in a haze of oxygen tubes, paperwork, and irony.

Prometheus, Unbound

By Dan Waters DO MA

In Prometheus, Unbound, a veteran heart surgeon draws a brilliant and haunting parallel between modern cardiac surgery and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Blending literature, philosophy, and lived experience, the essay reflects on medicine’s “unhallowed arts” — the power to restore life, the moral peril of detachment, and the enduring need for compassion amid technological triumph.