Building America

There is a word Kendell LeBray uses with a frequency that reveals something important: “access.” He uses it when he talks about rural communities where the nearest specialist is hours away. He uses it when he describes underserved neighborhoods where …

There is a number that Ruben Rathnasingham mentions, and when you first hear it, it does not quite land. Sixty. As in 60X, meaning sixty times the return on innovation investments, generated across academic and industry settings over the course …

There is a distance inside most hospital systems that nobody puts on a map. It exists between the moment a clinician recognizes a problem and the moment that problem actually gets solved. A physician sees an inefficiency in how data …

There is a particular kind of person who walks into a broken room and, rather than standing there cataloging what is wrong, quietly and methodically begins to rearrange it. Not out of restlessness. Not out of ego. But out of …

There is a certain kind of freedom that can only be understood on the back of a Harley-Davidson, a feeling of command over your own direction as the landscape of Surprise, Arizona, unfolds around you. For Karen Koenig, this is not …

There is a specific kind of silence that hangs over an Intensive Care Unit. It is not a peaceful quiet; it is a mechanical one, punctuated by the rhythmic hiss of ventilators and the sterile beep of cardiac monitors. It …