History is sometimes a combination of facts and hearsay—perspectives from varying points of view and some twisted accounts of occurrences with opinions and interpretations thrown in for color. It is challenging to piece together the facts of an event and how it leads to another, the motivations of the people behind the events, and the effects they have on people, institutions, and society, at t...

background: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a genetic disorder with a prevalence rate of 0.2% in the general population. it comes from mutations in sarcomeric proteins. cardiac myosin-binding protein c3 is one of the critical genes in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (hcm) and sudden cardiac death, accounting for about 20% of hcm-causing mutations. genetic testing is recommended in patients with hcm....

‘‘Sixteen years as a general practitioner [GP] showed me that the prevailing biomedical reductionist model fails to address the complexity of human experience and psychosomatic illness that daily practice brings up, and for which I was not trained. Even at the purely physical level, there are huge gaps in conventional training with virtually no training in musculoskeletal medicine (a huge compo...