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RG Collingwood

I Discovered a New Treatment for Tetanus the FDA Would Never Approve

A physician confronts tetanus deaths in Haiti and discovers that saving lives sometimes means working with tradition—not against it.

A Mysterious Fever After a Complicated Delivery

After a complicated delivery and severe blood loss, a physician fears the worst—until a house call in the Puerto Rican mountains reveals an unexpected truth about patient strength and physician anxiety.

The Wild

Beyond pristine trials lies the wild of real medicine—MyChart messages, imperfect adherence, and the trust that quietly holds care together.

The Break Room Paradox

An incisive meditation on physician burnout, respect, and power, using the empty hospital break room as a metaphor for systemic neglect.

The Dying Art: An Anesthesiologist’s Reflection on Medicine in the Age of Metrics

An anesthesiologist reflects on the quiet erosion of clinical judgment and human presence in modern medicine, as efficiency metrics, productivity pressures, and business priorities threaten the art, intuition, and covenant at the heart of patient care.

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.