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Explorations by Mohammed K. Drad

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  • Why “Prehab” Beats Waiting

    Why “Prehab” Beats Waiting

    August 24, 2025

    I used to think of pre-op wait as a waiting time. A time of patience and pondering, mixed with stress and worry. Then I met prehabilitation (prehab): as few as 2–4 weeks of simple exercise + protein intake that quietly raises the patient’s baseline before surgery. In short and simple words prehab is: Short, structured…

  • Simple test, big impact

    Simple test, big impact

    August 17, 2025

    The modern landscape of healthcare is buzzing with flashy ideas and words. Everyone is awaiting the fully AI-run healthcare facility with the big screens and floating dashboards. But I wonder if this thinking is as actionable as the imagination of someone that looked at the first car. The one that thought “what if cars can…

  • The Graduate Student’s Pyramid of Needs

    The Graduate Student’s Pyramid of Needs

    November 2, 2024

    In 1943, Abraham Maslow presented his renowned hierarchy of human needs in a paper titled “A Theory of Human Motivation.” Interestingly, he did not include pyramids to illustrate his theory, even though these pyramidal representations are now more popular than his original paper. Illustrating it as a pyramid, however, encapsulates the essence of his theory.…

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