Scott McLean

Gap Year, Week 46

November 26, 2024

Reindeer began nibbling the grass in our neighborhood just after Labor day. … More Gap Year, Week 46

Gap Year – Week 44

November 17, 2024

Don’t know exactly what’s going to happen? Good. A little scared? Good. Does the possibility of failure exceed single digits? Even better. … More Gap Year – Week 44

Gap Year, The Week of The Election

November 4, 2024

Here’s a question: what do you think I should read next? Just one book, any book. … More Gap Year, The Week of The Election

To vote is not an act of obedience. You are not compelled to cast a ballot. There are no fines, no imprisonment. It’s an offer extended by the ideas of the nation and the people who value those ideas. Just so you know, I’m one of those people. I hope you are, too. … More Gap Year, Week 42

Gap year, week 41 +

October 23, 2024

More genetic testing. We celebrate it. When it becomes compulsory, either by governmental mandate or by the irrepressible enthusiasms of fiscal heavy hitters in the health care system, genetic testing becomes eugenic medicine. … More Gap year, week 41 +

Gap Year – Week 41

October 21, 2024

I confess that counting the weeks has become tedious and tricky. I’ve resorted to asking the Google AI assistant to conduct the enumeration and find myself trusting it, or her, or them, at least as much as a voting machine. Gap year. A journey between clinical medicine (though many would accuse a clinical geneticist of … More Gap Year – Week 41