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This past Memorial Day weekend I gave a lot of thought to those who have passed defending our freedoms and way of life as well as those who have served and survived to be cared for by our society. About 3 years ago stories began to break about...

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Last October I wrote about “Riding a Bike Versus the Hard Part” after riding in a 3-day event where I met many patients, their friends and family and the challenges they face every day. Leading up to both of these rides on the East and...

In my previous post, The Knife Sharpener and Jimmy – Part 1 I wrote briefly about growing up outside of Chicago in a suburb called Cicero. For lack of a better word, Jimmy was perhaps as close a friend as anyone could have in that...

A loyal reader tipped me off to a recent article in The New Yorker entitled "A.I. Versus M.D." The article is written by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, a well known oncologist and author of The Emperor of all Maladies. This article, the book and the...

Last week a loyal reader sent me a link to an article on Yahoo! that headlined "Dogs detect breast cancer from bandage: researchers" from a French news agency. The article goes on to report that specially trained German Shepherds could...