Nikhil Krishnan

Link to full post: Why don’t we screen healthy people to catch diseases early?

In an era that prizes passion, “reasonableness” gets caricatured as political cowardice or bloodless neutrality. A new book says it's exactly what we need.

A history of academic life stands and falls by the number and quality of its anecdotes. On this count, Colin…

Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it just hard to track? Link to original post in April 2025. Pharma, Providers, and the Gray Area

I frequently chat with people that are looking for their next healthcare job and want to know companies they should join. When I ask what they're looking for in their next job, basically everyone says some combination of the same thing.

Andrea Wulf returns to the world of 18th-century intellectual adventurers, with a life of the naturalist George Forster

Someone asked me the other day what I thought the main issues in US healthcare are. F*** you dude, why do you wanna ruin my day? I hadn't even sat down for coffee yet, so I hit ‘em with the chuckle “where to begin” and proceeded to evade giving a specific answer. It was like 9 AM and I'm not trying to have any substantive conversation until at least post-lunch.

How sad should we be when a language dies? Consider the case—call it callous or simply tough-minded—for saying, “Not at all.” A language, when it comes down to it, is a means of communication.

Access the original post here An uncomfortable conversation about mental health access. The shift during COVID

One of the most noticeable things that's changed as I've gotten older is my sleep quality. I used to be able to sleep through anything - even cars with souped up woofers blaring Trinidad James outside my window at 3 am (oddly specific). Now I wake up a couple times every night and a night of bad sleep REALLY knocks me off my game.