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30 years ago, as of last month, I admitted an elderly woman to the ICU for a complicated pneumoniae requiring mechanical ventilation and vasopressor support. As a first month medical intern you learn to swim or drown. Fortunately, I didn’t...

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...

Happy Holidays from all of us at...

"The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings," said Paul, "not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions, and systems." If you have not read Player Piano, it is a good read. I read it many years ago...

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...