Dr. Sircus

Americans have grown accustomed to watching their paychecks shrink as expenses rise. Groceries cost more, housing consumes a larger share of household income, and utility bills keep climbing. Yet one of the biggest financial burdens is often deducted before workers even receive their paychecks: health insurance. The average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health ...

Something about human intelligence is profoundly disturbing. We possess extraordinary abilities to observe, reason, remember, imagine, and understand, yet we spend much of our lives defending ideas that separate us from reality. We can make astonishing discoveries about the universe while remaining remarkably ignorant of ourselves. We can look billions of light-years into spa...

Medicine is forever waiting for its next breakthrough. A new molecule, a new injection, a new treatment promising to transform disease—and generate extraordinary revenue. The expectation is almost automatic: the answer will be something recently invented, technologically impressive, and expensive. Meanwhile, magnesium remains available, inexpensive, and indispensable to human...

Doctors, health officials, and the regulators who oversee them operate with a willful ignorance that would be malpractice anywhere else in medicine—injecting a biologically active substance into a human body without knowing that body’s magnesium status is not a minor oversight. It is reckless. It is, by any honest standard of medicine, malpractice in the...

A key form of medical intelligence cannot be manufactured in a laboratory, bought by pharmaceutical companies, or fully captured in a randomized controlled trial. It develops through years of observing patients, recognizing patterns, listening deeply, making mistakes, and learning from the extraordinary complexity of human suffering. We call it clinical intelligence, and mode...