The Doctor Is In

The past two weeks have been rather punishing, with difficulties professional, personal, and family, and an on-call weekend thrown in to boot with its time-sink hangover effects (the week after a call weekend piles leftover work on top of regularly scheduled responsibilities–not to mention the effects of sleep deprivation). This has left me with little [...]

In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, there were some scattered reports–in an admittedly questionable media source (a British tabloid)–of euthanasia of patients trapped in a New Orleans hospital. I discussed the initial media report here, and did a follow up post here which expanded on the questionable nature of the sources and some of the [...]

In my previous post on guilt and shame, I discussed their nature and differences, their impact on personal and social life, and their instrumentality in much of our individual unhappiness and communal dysfunction. If indeed shame is the common thread of the human condition–fraught as it is with pain, suffering, and evil–it must be mastered [...]

A wise friend–a man who helped me emerge from a period of considerable difficulty in my life–once taught me a simple lesson. In less than a minute, he handed me a gift which I have spent years only beginning to understand, integrating it into my life with agonizing slowness. It is a lesson which intellect [...]

I will be taking a break for a week or so, to travel to a family wedding. Here’s a short sampler of a few recent posts for your perusal, if you haven’t had a chance to read them yet: Grace 4 U2–everything you ever wanted to know about grace and karma The Two Towers–Pt VII: [...]