Colt’s Corner: Reflections on a Medical Journey

A New Home for My Writing posted on 2026-01-30

I’m grateful you have been reading my work here, and I’m honored that so many of you around the world have viewed or downloaded educational materials from bronchoscopy.org in support of our shared educational mission. I will continue to add to this website, and to post on Colt’s Corner. For some time now, however, I’ve been thinking about  [Read More]

Bronchoscopy Academy More modules added posted on 2026-05-31

Dear colleagues, Another couple of educational modules were added to the Bronchoscopy Academy YouTube channel, expanding our growing library of foundational bronchoscopy and airway education resources designed for trainees, fellows, practicing clinicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and others involved in pulmonary and airway care. More are coming in the next weeks! Recent topics include: • Normal laryngeal anatomy•  [Read More]

New Bronchoscopy Academy Videos Available posted on 2026-05-26

Dear colleagues, New educational modules have recently been added to the Bronchoscopy Academy YouTube channel, expanding our growing library of foundational bronchoscopy and airway education resources designed for trainees, fellows, practicing clinicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and others involved in pulmonary and airway care. More are coming in the next weeks! Recent topics include: • Normal  [Read More]

A Final Note from Colt’s Corner posted on 2026-05-05

Dear Friends, Over the past years, you chose to receive these brief reflections through Colt’s Corner. I have always been mindful that your attention is not casual—it is given, and you have generously subscribed to Colt’s Corner with interest and enthusiasm. I’ve decided now to bring this work into a single, more deliberate space on Substack.  [Read More]

Judgment, Identity, and the Age of Systems posted on 2026-04-25

Medicine is no longer defined solely by what physicians can do, but by how they assume responsibility for decisions made within increasingly structured, technology-driven systems. As diagnostic pathways, algorithms, and artificial intelligence begin to organize clinical decisions in advance, the physician no longer stands outside the system, but operates within it. What can be done  [Read More]

Steps to More: From Space to Medicine posted on 2026-04-18

On April 10, the child in me—now seventy years old—was stirred back to life as I watched a space capsule descend into the Pacific Ocean. Decades earlier, I had watched another moment unfold on a flickering black-and-white television in a Washington hotel room as Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon. What I  [Read More]