FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE OPERATING TABLE
Medicine can save a life. The life that follows still has to be carried.
StayOnHealth explores Medicine’s Blind Spot: what happens when medically sound care enters ordinary bodies, families, homes, technologies, and unequal environments.
StayOnHealth draws on more than three decades in cardiovascular surgery, the experience of becoming a patient, and years of work in digital health.
“The Intervention may end. Responsibility does not”
– MUSTAFA KEMAL ÇALIK, MD
THE FOUR PATHS
Four ways of understanding what medicine leaves behind.
Together, these four paths form Bridges of Care, a way of seeing what helps a medical plan survive ordinary life.
REAL LIFE NOTES
Real Moments. Real Lessons.
FIELD JOURNAL
Thoughts from the Bridge
Essays on recovery, caregiving, technology, capacity, and what medically sound care leaves unfinished in ordinary life.
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The Feed Has No Natural Ending
A chapter ends. A program reaches its credits. An infinite feed does neither. New research on short-video viewing raises a deeper question about self-control: what changes when the environment removes the moment in which we normally decide whether to continue? Short video scrolling removes many of the natural pauses where we decide whether to continue. What might that mean for self-control and digital wellbeing?
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The Night Shift No One Names
Some of the hardest caregiving work leaves no record. At night, family members may spend hours listening, watching, and deciding whether a change is ordinary or needs help. The Night Shift No One Names explores the invisible vigilance that begins when formal care goes quiet. nighttime caregiving and care at home after illness are what to be discussed.
StayOnHealth Notes
Occasional essays and project updates on Medicine’s Blind Spot, care, capacity, technology, and the life around medicine.
Coming soon.