Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Not bad for a dropped ceiling in the doctor's office.  ;-) (Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

So I was talking with a friend and he was pretty frustrated with the state of medical care these days. He mentioned that no doctor wants to ...

  So I have been sick the last 9 days, and don't really know what it is (bad cold, flu, or Covid).  But I am hearing that Covid is spira...

So one huge downside to this Coronavirus shutdown is that you can barely get any help for other medical conditions or elective surgeries. ...

So I had a little procedure this week.  I hate going to the hospital--who doesn't? But I figured better to take care of something ...

With the crisis of Hurricane Harvey and the rains still battering Houston... It was so amazing to read this morning about the doctors wh...

I saw this sign hanging prominently in a large local Baltimore hospital here (and it comes from the Talmud):  "He who saves one lif...

So I went to the Podiatrist today for some routine maintenance.  This was a new doctor for me, and I was going in with a healthy dose of...

So when we're young, we think we're Superman, Batman, or whatever superhero comes to mind.  Our bodies are beautiful, supple, st...

I took this photo in the doctor's office.  No, this is not my doctor, but a statue of one on the countertop.   What's funny ...

This nice gentlemen who works in the medical profession was telling me a funny story today. He grew up amidst a collection of small vill...

So surgery was yesterday around 11 am. I was asleep under anesthesia before I ever even got to the operating room, so can't remember...

Great new medical examination device from Tyto Care . Handheld, mobile, cloud-based solution for performing a basic medical examination, ...

So this is what a new hip looks like. Well almost, anyway--this is a small-scale model of one. About 300,000 people per year benefit...

The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating interview today with Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of a new company that has rethought how we d...

In many respects, medicine has come a really long way, and yet in other ways it seems like it still has so far to go.  For e...