Waiting Room

Vegetal Memories: A (Personal) History of Feeding Tubes

Some thoughts on food intimacy and clinical nutrition

Jul 24, 2023 • 

Nikita Singareddy

April 2023

Contracts Under Coercion

On debt and physician compensation with appearances by Locke, Shakespeare, Roman antiquity, and Byung-Chul Han

Apr 6, 2023 • 

Nikita Singareddy

January 2023

Myths of the Bitsphere and Biosphere

A brief reflection on the past year and some spurious predictions for hc/bio in 2023

Jan 5, 2023 • 

Nikita Singareddy

October 2022

Logistical Imagination and the Adderall Shortage

Ignoring supply chain chokepoints at our own peril.

Oct 5, 2022 • 

Nikita Singareddy

August 2022

A Visit to the Medical Theatre

Some offbeat thoughts on why we love public displays of affliction.

Aug 30, 2022 • 

Nikita Singareddy

May 2022

Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) and Biotech Companies as Lifestyle Brands

Been a minute since my last post but I won’t belabor why. Work is challenging (in a fulfilling way) and I’ve started dating again (fun!). My roommates…

May 27, 2022 • 

Nikita Singareddy

December 2021

Diagnostic Tattoos and My Sidequest to Become a Heilpraktikerin in Germany

I’m finally back in the States after a few months of purposeful exploration in Berlin. Armed with speculations on the future of healthcare and bio, my…

Dec 29, 2021 • 

Nikita Singareddy

Building Physical/Digital Spaces for Healthcare, Trends in 💊 Development Timelines and more

In the early months of the pandemic-that-never-ends, I found myself on a Telegram channel for the Fatum Project. Strangers swapped stories about…

Dec 10, 2021 • 

Nikita Singareddy

November 2021

The Problem with Clinician Fiefdoms, Alternative Care Models, and Transferring Memories via RNA Modification

“At some point, I switched to intellectual production from intellectual consumption.” I stop stirring the spoon in my latte. I am at breakfast with…

Nov 30, 2021 • 

Nikita Singareddy

Deep Profiling, a Sequoia-backed Gut Probiotic, and more

Bom Dia! I started writing this issue with my feet still dusted in Portugese sand. I was at a retreat for Other Internet, a research group that develops…

Nov 12, 2021 • 

Nikita Singareddy

October 2021

Why Anesthesiologists Are Huge Political Donors, "API" for the Body and More

Welcome back. It feels surreal to be writing this dispatch from Berlin, home of the Robert Koch Institute (where the eponymous doctor / Nobel…

Oct 22, 2021 • 

Nikita Singareddy

Nutrition Labels are Whack

Plus the Medicare money machine, epigenetic age vs chronological age, ancient medicinal clay, analogies between deep learning and biology

Oct 4, 2021 • 

Nikita Singareddy