I build healthcare companies from first principles. Hospice taught me what actually matters, so I build backward from that.
Listen and read
Field notes from the operator’s chair. Every one is an episode too.
In 1961 nine in ten doctors surveyed said they kept a cancer diagnosis from the patient. In 1977, 97 percent said they told. Hospice began the same way, outside the consensus, which is the one place a model trained on medicine can’t look.
On stage
My whyA letter · 8 min read
A letter about candy in the fourth grade, stolen business books, a lifetime of no, and the plan.
Ask anything in your own words. Every answer comes from what Steven has written, here and in his field notes, with the passage it came from. A short follow-up works too.
