They say that hell is hot. Sometimes, however, it is very, very cold. Jim loved Alaska — it had been his home since birth. God’s country: wild, unpredictable, spectacular in beauty — there was no place like it on earth. Cities were a necessary evil, with their services and surliness, but out in the wild…
Category: Medicine
Revenge of the Fifth
It seemed like such a great idea at the time… His name is Darin. Of course, that’s not his real name, but he is a casual friend of mine. A bright young man, possessed of good looks, a warm smile, and a soft-spoken demeanor. Darin is brilliant with computers — not merely competent, as many…
On Assisted Suicide
Revolution of the Soul
In the past several days, through the lens of my profession, I have been given a rather stark and disturbing vision of our current cultural revolution. It is, it seems, a revolution every bit as pervasive and transformational — and destructive — as China’s Cultural Revolution of the 60s — and indeed may be but…