Writing for The New York Times, physician Dhruv Khullar opened  How Social Isolation is Killing Us with the story of a patient who was actively dying-he would be gone within 24 hours-and had nobody in his life to notify. No friends, no family, no neighbors. The article goes on to list staggering facts and figures about the impact of loneliness and social isolation on both individual and societal health. The story haunted me for days. ...