Communication Skills
Beyond Mandatory Autonomy: Truth Without Abandonment
Honesty and hope aren’t opposing forces. They are a matched set: hope for the best and prepare for the worst—paired with an explicit promise of nonabandonment.
Teaching Pearl
Practical wisdom to the best of my knowledge.
Health Policy
The Sectarian Temptation
We work in the places where evidence gets thin, emotions run hot, and the mysteries are real. It is the exact territory where sectarian certainty rushes in with confident answers, unfalsifiable frameworks, and the seductive promise that someone, somewhere, has figured it all out.
Teaching Pearl
Kyle’s Pain Pearls & Pet Peeves
Welcome back to Rounds & Rants, where we tackle the myths, misunderstandings, and maddening habits that make living harder than it needs to be. For today’s topic I thought I'd bring us back from the clouds where I lived for the first few points and talk about
Changing the World
Death, Creativity, and Compassion: What Are We Really Training For?
In specialist palliative care, we talk about “compassion training” as if it’s a discrete skill you can add to a checklist. Joan Halifax’s enactive model challenges that notion: compassion isn’t a module; it emerges when attentional clarity, affective balance, ethical intention, and embodied engagement cohere in context.
Communication Skills
What Kyle Learned Recently
From time-to-time, I will publish articles that have recently crossed my path with my analysis of what they tell us. This will be the first in that series.