Treating what happened is different from stopping what keeps happening. You wake up to water on the kitchen floor. Not much — just enough to notice. You mop it up and get on with your day. It’s back the next morning. You mop again. By the third morning, the puddle
The mistake begins when we ask it to do the job of an antibiotic. Last time we looked at two wounds that looked the same from the outside. One just needed time to heal. The other was infected. They got the same treatment and had different results, which left us
What if some of our biggest problems persist because we’re treating the wrong wound? Let's start with something small. Before poverty, inequality, development goals, or politics, I want to talk about a scraped knee. Two children come home after playing outside. Both fell, and both scraped a