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Independent practice already rejects the assumption that a third party must mediate the physician-patient relationship. Bitcoin extends that logic to money itself. What independent practice is actually doing Direct Primary Care, physician-owned surgery centers, fee-for-service specialty clinics that have left the insurance grid: these are different business models, but they share a common move. They take an intermediary out of a relationship that does not require one. The pat

by Ravi Kamepalli, MD, FIDSA, CWSP, MAPWCA, DABOM, MHP. Board Certified Infectious Disease, Wound Care, and Obesity Medicine. The Network That Heals For decades, healthcare has been organized around silos. Cardiology treats the heart. Nephrology treats kidneys. Endocrinology treats diabetes. Infectious diseases treat infections. Wound care treats wounds. Yet patients do not experience life in silos. The human body is not a collection of disconnected organs. It is a living net

The confluence of Bitcoin, health, and medical care has been a topic of discussion for years, with many crypto projects claiming to revolutionize healthcare, only to ultimately fall short of their promises. However, a deeper examination of the intersection between Bitcoin, and health reveals a profound connection between the ethos of Bitcoin and the pursuit of wellness. The principles of personal responsibility, self-sovereignty, and low time preference that underlie the Bitc

Introduction In medicine, doctors use clinical reasoning to interpret objective data and reported symptoms to arrive at a diagnosis. The final diagnosis is often mediated through the process of forming a differential diagnosis, which is a shortlist of possible explanations, before settling on the most likely condition. In a similar spirit, we can analyze Bitcoin as if it were a “patient” presenting as a set of characteristics (signs and symptoms) to determine its true purpose