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Michael Gottlieb MD and the Discovery of AIDS: Part 5

A history of HIV/AIDS treatment—from early behavioral interventions and AZT to combination therapy, viral suppression, global prevalence, and the ongoing search for a vaccine.

Michael Gottlieb MD and the Discovery of AIDS: Part 4

Dr. Michael Gottlieb explains how HIV dismantles the immune system, leading to opportunistic infections, cancer, stigma, and the human toll of AIDS.

Michael Gottlieb MD and the Discovery of AIDS: Part 3

A physician’s account of how a few puzzling infections in 1981 led to the first recognition of AIDS—and how observation, curiosity, and courage changed medicine forever.

Part 1: The Life of Michael Gottlieb MD and the Discovery of AIDS

A sleepless ICU night unfolds into a harrowing code blue as an exhausted physician confronts mortality, medical uncertainty, and quiet dread after a fatal intubation—an evocative, cinematic portrait of medicine in the early AIDS era, where unanswered questions linger long after the monitors fall silent.

Michael Gottlieb MD and the Story of AIDS: Part 2

A biography of immunologist Michael Gottlieb, tracing his path from transplant science to the first AIDS patients, set within the cultural and medical history of HIV.

On Radiation

A powerful first-person meditation on radiation therapy, recurrence, and survival — written by a physical therapist and physician-advocate confronting illness from both sides of care.

When the Numbers Start Deciding: On Private Equity and the Quiet Erosion of Care

Family physician Trisza L. Ray, DO reflects on how private equity is altering the soul of medicine, reshaping care into metrics, margins, and throughput.

Every Horse Needs a Suzanne, and Every Suzanne Needs a Horse

A surgeon tells the story of a woman who fears losing her horse more than her health — and what that reveals about healing, devotion, and being human.

When the Pharmacist Practiced Medicine (Briefly, Casually, and Without Consent)

A brief trip to the pharmacy becomes an unexpected meditation on professional identity, creeping authority, and the fragile balance between vigilance and overreach in modern medicine.

The Space Between Us: On Working Beside NP's, PA's, and Fellow Physicians

A physician’s reflection on teamwork, identity, and humanity in healthcare — inviting all roles into a more honest, compassionate culture of care.

Cassandra and Semmelweis Meet After Hours

An allegorical meditation that uses both myth and medical history to comment on modern medicine’s most dangerous failure: not ignoring evidence, but obeying it too rigidly — even when it causes harm — as Cassandra and Semmelweis confront the polite machinery of institutional blindness

Ballerina

Through the story of a smiling patient in relentless decline, a doctor confronts the limits of medicine and the quiet transformation of a healer who finally allows himself to say what he feels.