Last December I wrote a post called “Notice of Death”. I spoke about finding out about people who had passed on my Facebook stream. This week there were more notices of people younger than I who had passed from metastatic cancer. Their...

Chris, as he preferred to be called was from a wealthy suburb of Detroit. He went to one of the well-known private schools and excelled at basketball and baseball. His room was 2 doors down from mine and we had little in common but became quick...

RIP Craig Sager - fellow Northwestern alum and once "Willie the Wildcat". Will miss the questions, comments and the...

Below blog reprinted with permission from DoveMed. As a personal aside, my generation danced at junior high and high school dances to songs like "Little Red Corvette" and "Purple Rain". While perhaps we thought performers like Prince and...

I never met my paternal grandfather. He passed away from a massive stroke about a year before I was born. I was named after him but know very little of his early life. He came from Russia when he was 3 years old and the family settled in...

Tom, along with Bernd Scheithauer and Joe Parisi, both of whom I knew from AFIP connections, was a mentor to me while I was at Mayo Clinic. From my first days there, Tom was constantly asking me if I needed anything to get oriented and took the...