The Doctor Is In

Still trying to stay one step ahead of the snapping alligators, so here’s another older post, hopefully worth your time — Dr. Bob   Damn!, I hate these calls… Lying on my desk, clipped to a yellow manila binder, is a single sheet of paper. Its pleasant color format and sampled photomicrograph belie the gravity [...]

Another older post, as my friends at the IRS seem to be demanding an extra dose of torture this year.   A link from Glenn Reynolds hooked into something I’ve been ruminating on in recent days: the endless pursuit of longer life. Here’s the question I’ve been pondering: is it an absolute good to be [...]

Lost in the dustbin of inconvenient memories, left behind in the light-speed pace of internet information mania is the story of the deaths of patients at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A physician and two nurses were arrested after the Louisiana District Attorney charged them with murder, accusing them [...]

A discussion of the spiritual problem of pain and suffering

I’ve been working on several posts, which had been taking longer than expected — especially a post on euthanasia, which is beginning to look like another multi-part series. I hope to start getting some of these up in the near future. In the meantime, a link from Glenn Reynolds hooked into something I’ve been ruminating [...]

The war rages on. It is a battle with ancient roots, deeply embedded in religion, culture, and the tensions between rich and poor. It is a war of contrasts: high technology and primitive cultural weapons; knowledge versus ignorance; speed and urgency against the methodical slowness of an enemy who knows time is on his side. [...]