The Doctor Is In

Just a word of deepest-felt gratitude for those of you who offered your support and prayers regarding my deposition yesterday. The strength of your prayers were felt and experienced in a deep way, one which I consider in many ways to be miraculous.
The deposition itself went well, as best I can judge. My attorney was […]

As some of you may have noticed, my rate of posting has been relatively slow for the past few months. There has been, as you might imagine, quite a few things competing for my time, some of which I hope to discuss forthwith.
My most immediate focus is a legal one. As I mentioned some time […]

I’ve been feeling a bit remiss (but only a bit) about my light posting of late — but hey, it’s summertime, and if Vanderleun can take a vacation, well, why not me?
But of course there’s always something which comes up, which demands some comment — such as this little blurb in the Wall Street Journal […]

Often in the sturm und drang of a world gone mad, there comes, through the chaos and insanity, some brief moment of clarity. Such times pass by quickly, and are quickly forgotten — as this brief instance might have been, courtesy of my neighboring bellweather state of Oregon: (HT: Hot Air)
Last month her lung cancer, […]

Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits:
A quarter of a century after the outbreak of AIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared.
In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organizations may have been […]

I wanna live
with a cinnamon girl
I could be happy
the rest of my life
With a cinnamon girl.
    – Neil Young
 
You can’t make this stuff up, really…
Joe is an old patient, been seein’ him since I started practice some 25 years ago. Nice guy, but a little — shall we say? — quirky. Big into herbs and alternative […]

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 of its content:
Adenocarcinoma, […]

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 continually striving for […]