Writing
Writing
Where I think out loud — long essays on Substack, shorter dispatches on LinkedIn, and the papers that started it all. On medicine, money, and the future of American health.
The Series
Cutting the Knot — an ongoing series on how medicine is finally moving upstream: GLP-1s, metabolic surgery, and the decisive, less-invasive treatments remaking chronic disease. New essays land on Substack; short versions on LinkedIn.
The Robin Blackstone writing collected here moves between the clinic and the ledger: why American medicine waits for the crash instead of bending the curve, what GLP-1s and metabolic surgery reveal about treating disease at its root, how the economics of illness became a business model, and what it would take to rebuild trust between people and the system that is supposed to protect them. The dispatches are shorter — field notes from the places where culture, environment, and health intersect — and the papers underneath them lay out the full Health 4.0 architecture, from Trajectory Engineering to the constitutional case for a right to health.
The Books
The American Health series — Who Gets Paid and the forthcoming Cutting the Knot of Chronic Disease — alongside Doctor AI: Reimagining Healthcare, Rebuilding Trust. See the books →