Humor

In medical school I drove a cab at night to make ends meet. I rented the medallion from a guy for $50 and kept the difference I made. The Army paid me $692 a month stipend on the Health Professions Scholarship and the studio apartment in...

Next month will be my 30th medical school reunion. Not sure where the past 30 years have gone and can tell you little about what happened during the 4 years of medical school other than what happened in medical school. Clinton’s first term...

As a second-year medical student, the chairman of pathology at my medical school came to lecture us on inflammation and repair. Among the first chapters in the hallowed Robbins textbook of pathology (which he contributed to both from his...

As I mentioned about 6 months ago, our practice has adopted the use of digital pathology. While it is "digital", it is simply, pathology. At least 80% of my caseload is now viewed on a monitor. The work is done with mouse rather than...

“It isn't knowledge that's making trouble, but the uses it's put to.” - Kurt Vonnegut As a resident, my chief of anatomic pathology, who was Mexican born and spoke perfect Spanglish told me, “Señor, you have to know the 3 Gs and the D...

My family moved from the Town of Cicero, Illinois to the Village of Riverside, Illinois in West Suburban Cook County when I was in the fifth grade. While I only had a few good friends at that time, the move came as a shock. I had my routines...