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…
Category: Medicine
The Stallion
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…
Everybody Must Get Stoned
Archives 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…
The Call
Archives 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, Gleason grade 9, involving 60% of the specimen. How do you deliver a death sentence? Your first impression of…