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 was where life could…
Category: Medicine
Cinnamon Boy
Cinnamon Boy I wanna live with the cinnamon girl I could be happy the rest of my life With my cinnamon girl. — Neil Young You can’t make this stuff up, really… Joe (not his real name) is an old patient, been seein’ him since I started practice some 25 years ago. Nice guy,…
Ducking the Hard Questions
Ducking the Hard Questions It’s good to know that science is finally beginning to address larger questions of the meaning of life, rather than wasting time on trivial pursuits such as the origins of the universe. This epiphany came to me upon reading the following news release: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several species of ducks have…
Everybody Must Get Stoned
Everybody Must Get Stoned 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…