Tag: Harm

I must first of all say that I’m grateful to have alternative ways to publish my writing. In some publications, a title like the one I chose for this piece would likely be censored or edited, and I imagine I would receive pushback for it. That’s why I felt like Medium was the b...

Today, I would like to talk about genetic testing that we do in our patients. I think we do it a little bit more frequently than it’s done in the United States. I think it’s an interesting topic for a number of reasons. I think it can help in clinical care of our patients. It can help in...

My name is Harm Bogaard. I’m a pulmonologist here in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. I work at the National Expert Center for pulmonary hypertension patients. We have a clinic, obviously, with patients mainly with idiopathic and hereditary PAH. We also have a chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hyp...

It is very empowering, after years of failure and collapse and friend loss and marriage loss and all the rest, to finally just up and tell people, “Yes, I am an addict.” I think it’s important to say am in this case, because it’s an active condition that could resum...

Over the last few years, the conversation around substance use disorder especially opioids and its treatment has gained momentum. In the midst of all the discussions around the best ways to assist those with opioid use disorder, a certain term has been used frequently and incorrectly — “...