Welcome to Good Medicine

Welcome to Good Medicine.

As doctors, we live in a world with a cascading set of challenges. Whether it be the pressures of reimbursement and clinical throughput, or just the challenges we face in delivering quality health care, the context of medicine nowadays can sometimes feel very demotivating. So why in this world of chaos do we continue to practice, despite the challenges? If we’re radical simplifiers, it’s because we love sitting in front of a patient, and hopefully making them better. It’s also because we love being surrounded by colleagues who are deep thinkers and innovators. And maybe it’s because we have a front seat watching and implementing the latest in biomedical advances.  Few fields offer this array of interactions. And medicine will always be special in that regard.

And what do we crave as healers? If we think deeply about that question, we just want to be unleashed so we can practice Good Medicine. So I’m launching this blog where I’ll interview the best minds in health care. We’ll talk to the trailblazers and storytellers who highlight us at our very best. We’ll speak with the changemakers who use their unique talents to forever alter health and disease. And through it all, we’ll show that, despite the countless challenges that face physicians today, the human impact of medicine endows it as one of society’s most essential and enduring constructs.

With each entry, We’re going to focus on an attribute that seems essential for Good Medicine. And through that attribute, we’ll shine a bright light on why this feature is so important in our rapidly changing healthcare world.

Hope you enjoy it.

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Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medicine and one of the founders of Roon. He started Roon with Vikram Bhaskaran and Arun Ranganathan because they believe that patients need trusted answers to their healthcare questions, anytime and anyplace. 

Christina Farr is both an advisor to Roon and an editor for this publication.

At the beginning of this post, I mentioned the thinking and inspiration behind the name of this blog “Good Medicine.” Perhaps as important, the name also pays homage to Bon Jovi’s classic “Bad Medicine.” To our readers who are fans of 80s rock, this one’s for you.