What do you say we do an exercise in imagination today? What if we reinvented society and human civilization? Obviously, this can only be a theoretical exercise, because in reality things are much more difficult to change, and neither you nor I have any real power to do something like this. In my imagination everything can be changed very easily.. I don’t necessarily think being a dreamer is a bad thing. I have been like this my entire life. When I was in kindergarten, I used

Welcome back! Today I want to talk to you about COVID. Do you still remember COVID? Probably some of the people who will read this post in the future will not even understand what exactly I am talking about. COVID emerged as a pandemic at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020. Anyone curious enough to look up the general facts is free to do so. I have no intention of giving you theoretical lectures. Nor do I intend to count myself among those of you who never believed in

Hi everyone. Today, I decided to start a miniseries called Fatboy. In this series, I’m going to explore different topics related to obesity. For me, this is meant to be a hands-on, pragmatic project that can actually offer a way to lose weight. After many years of failed attempts at losing weight and trying different diets, I’ve realized that I need to take a different approach. It’s not enough to simply follow a diet or exercise for a certain period of time. What is needed i

I kept thinking today about the purpose of this blog and why I feel this need to write something. A part of me has become almost addicted to it and would like to write to you every single day. But I wonder whether daily posts would eventually lose some of their substance, some of their purpose. Today, I decided to go back in time and tell you stories from my life and my childhood. Maybe that’s a good way to get to know someone. I know I would enjoy reading stories from other

Do you think that's an exaggeration? Do you think something especially interesting happened, worth telling the rest of you readers about? No, it's not an exaggeration, and no, I don't think anything particularly interesting happened. Objectively, it was probably just another day of my life. But to me, it was something beautifully special. Here's the story, and I'll let each of you decide for yourselves whether it really was a beautiful day. The day started fairly early with a

Good morning, my dears. Today is another heatwave day here in Colmar. Europe has seen a lot of fires these past months, and it feels like one giant fire stretching from Bordeaux all the way to Spain. Yesterday it was 36 degrees, but somehow it felt even hotter than that. Last night I sat down and looked through the global markets and the turn the economy has taken. I was trying to figure out what the lessons for you should be, and how I could guide you better. The truth is, e

Hi, my dears. How was your day? What adventures did you get up to today? I'm curious what season it is outside when you'll read these lines. Right now, here in Colmar, it's summer, early August, with temperatures around 30 degrees. In a few days you'll both get to enjoy the sandy beach in Spain, and Laura, you'll finally be able to get into the pool you've missed so much. Luca, you're still little, you still need some time before you can go in the water. Today, my dears, I wa

Hi there, my loves, how are you doing? I hope this post finds you well in the future. I'm curious what age you'll be when you read it. Today I want to talk to you about money. And no, this isn't a conversation about how much money we're leaving you as inheritance, but about the very notion of money. You see, your mother and I were born in Romania, to parents who were never encouraged to understand the world around them. In a communist state, that was simply normal. I don't th

The term family medicine defines treating the patient while taking his family context into account. Treating several family members in the same practice can be an advantage, but also a disadvantage. Possible conflicts or delicate situations can arise when the people responsible for the patient are not the ones most emotionally involved or closest to him. Most of the time, a patient who needs medical support from us will also need emotional and financial support from his famil

I don't even know how to begin this post. I've been sitting here for several minutes, staring at the blank page in front of me, and the blinking cursor—seemingly hungry for letters—is starting to irritate me. I have so much to say, but I don't know how to begin without being misunderstood. Perhaps the easiest thing is simply to start telling you the story and see where my thoughts take me. What I want to tell you about happened today in my office. I spent some time wondering

Most of us have heard this term repeated over and over: good communication, not just in a medical context. How do we establish good communication with the patient and, more importantly, how do we objectively evaluate whether it's actually effective? Because of our own bias, most doctors believe they have excellent communication, while many patients feel misunderstood or unheard. So how can we analyze this discrepancy objectively? We probably need to ask ourselves what exactly

The role of the family physician has remained relatively unchanged over the years: to care for both the acute and chronic health problems of patients, whether they are physical or psychological in nature. A family physician fulfills several essential functions. The first is the curative function—treating diseases comprehensively rather than focusing on a single organ or condition. The second is the preventive function—playing a central role in all preventive healthcare progra

Good morning, Europe. I’m awake. It is Saturday morning, 7:20 a.m., and I am beginning to write this article. I wonder why I couldn’t sleep for another hour, but then I remember that the moment I opened my eyes, I thought that if I happened to wake up, I could write something else for the blog. Something strange always happens whenever I begin writing. Although I don’t always have an idea I want to write about, as soon as I start hitting the keys, it feels as though a tap of

This morning I woke up thinking about Laura and Luca, after last night I wrote Laura her first message in the capsule, pretty late, and after that I held Luca on my belly. Or more precisely, his little belly rested on my big belly. That's a more accurate way to put it. I was thinking about how, over the years, society has evolved, and I was thinking about their childhood and how it will evolve, and at the same time about my own childhood. And I was wondering why the world has

Hi Laura, daddy loves you so much. Today I'm writing you the first message from the capsule that I hope finds you well in the future. Today, like yesterday, was a very difficult day. Right now I'm working a lot. On Mondays I wake up at 6:30 and manage to leave the house by 7:30, only to get back home between 10 and 11 at night. The same thing continues on Tuesday. Today, even though I tried to leave the office on time, I ended up running more than 1 hour over schedule. It was

Hi, I'm Daniel, the creator of this blog. I don't even know exactly what I could tell you about myself on this about page. I don't know what kind of information would interest you, or why anyone would even follow my blog. So, out of a lack of imagination, I'm going to try to tell you my life story up to now. Maybe it will bore you, maybe it isn't interesting enough, but this, as it is, is what led me onto the path I'm on now. I was born in Romania in 1986, into a modest famil