Personal

Last month this blog turned 8 years old with nearly 2,700 posts to date or about 330 posts per year on average.  Along the way in addition to news items, my thoughts, stories and remembrances of medical education and the like there have been a...

This is a continuation from Mr. Sims and the Summer of ’95 – Part 1. On Thursday, July 13, 1995 the high temperature at O’Hare Airport was 104 degrees. Mayor Daley was quoted as saying “It’s hot. It’s very hot. Yesterday we...

Mr. Sims appeared in front of Judge O’Callahan in a Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago off of Dearborn as I recall. We both had cases to be heard at the 1:00 court call. His would be the first case called and mine the last called at 5...

Last Saturday I had the good fortune of playing golf with this gentlemen who will be 97 in a few days. To put this into some perspective, for a person born in 1918, the odds according to some sources I saw were on the order of 0.50% of living...

I arrived for my away rotation early. I was scheduled to be at the Office of The Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) in Baltimore for the month of July. My first rotation of second year of residency would be spent away from the gross bench and...

Joseph Desiderio, President of Voicebrook, has a recent blog post on their site that I asked to re-post here and share his thoughts and company vision/mission. The piece is personal and poignant and touches on what in part we started here last...