Quiet Desperation
How to heal modern medicine
Issue No. 1
July 2026
In this inaugural issue, we examine the practice of medicine, the meaning of good work, and the tension between healthcare as calling and healthcare as industry.
The Slow Death of Primary Care
As primary care physicians burn out and retire early, the backbone of American medicine is quietly collapsing. What happens when no one wants to be your family doctor?
The 80-Hour Workweek: Resident Physicians and the Limits of Reform
Twenty years after regulations limited resident work hours to 80 per week, medical training remains grueling. Why haven’t reforms worked, and what would real change require?
The Supine Gaze
New sight as the end of medicine in Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill