After the Medical Visit, the Quiet
Learning to Know the Truth About What Happens After Care She came home from the appointment in the early afternoon.The medical visit itself had gone as expected. There were charts. Measurements...
After the Crash: What Matters Most After a POI Diagnosis
After the Crash, What Matters Most A Safe Place After the crash, there is often a quiet stretch that no one prepares you for. The appointment is over.The words have been said.And the room wh...
The Moment After a Diagnosis: When the Mind Can’t Catch Up
The Moment After the Crash When the Mind Can’t Catch Up There is a moment after a diagnosis like Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI) when the words have already been spoken—but nothing has ...
When Readiness Fails: A Sentinel Systems Failure After NIH Care
The Danger of Healthcare Readiness Failure In my previous post, I wrote about institutional readiness in healthcare and research—how responsibility changes what a system owes its people. I inten...
Institutional Readiness in Healthcare: When Systems Carry People
Institutional Readiness in Healthcare Is Infrastructure, Not Virtue For thirty years, I worked inside the NIH Intramural Research Program. I served as a physician–scientist, led basic laboratory...
We Do Not Always Hear the Silence in Time: A New Year Reflection
As a new year begins, I find myself carrying a quiet observation shaped by loss.Years ago, I cared for a woman I knew well. She was engaged, thoughtful, and stayed in contact over time. Then, quietly...
NIH’s Missing Spine: Why Person-Centered Research Still Fails at Scale
When Research Remembers Protocols but Forgets People, Everyone Loses. Building Systems that Remember People is the Next Frontier. At My28days, we hear again and again from people who feel frag...
Christmas, Care, and the Courage to See the Whole Person
A Reflection from Lampang, Thailand Christmas has a way of quieting the world. Here in Lampang, Thailand, the season does not arrive with snow or carols echoing through centuries-old churches. ...
Pushing the Rock in the Light: A Lampang Message for the World
This season of light — the secular Christmas period celebrated across the globe — invites us to pause, breathe, and reflect on how we meet the responsibilities and rhythms of our lives. Here at M...
A Global Ecosystem of Care – A Larger View of Reality
Where to Find a Clinician Who Understands Primary Ovarian Insufficiency Women with Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI) deserve care that sees the whole person – not just her hormones or fertilit...
