Category: Medicine

Some … interesting … experiences from my medical practice: Vignette #1: His reversal surgery went smoothly — dozens of sutures too fine for the unaided eye, reconstructing his vasectomy to restore fertility. The outcome was promising, the young couple quite excited at the possibilities. His recovery was uneventful, so his call a week or so…

This is my call weekend. Call weekends — where you cover for a host of other physicians, so that the fortunate many may enjoy some time off at the expense of the unfortunate SOB on call — are akin to ritual self-flagellation: long days, longer nights, countless phone calls from emergency rooms and ailing patients,…

He was an average-looking kid, maybe 25, what statisticians might call “an outlier” — not quite strange enough to be bizarre, but definitely a bit “out there” — a little “goosey” in mannerisms, pleasant but slightly inappropriate in the things he laughed at, with his facial expressions, and with those other subliminal messages some call…

Recently, while relaxing, drinking camomile tea and meditating on my navel — or at least that part still visible — I came across a little sidebar news blurb in our local paper that caught my eye. To wit: A local man who shot an intruder sent to his home to beat him up for refusing…