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Medicine of course over the years has become increasingly technical. Imaging in particular has replaced, in my opinion, much of the art of medicine and replaced it with science. With advanced imaging techniques old questions get replaced with...
At my home we keep about twenty chickens, and we lost a couple of them to predators a couple of weeks ago. As my wife and I were discussing the incident and possible causes for the demise of our egg-producers, one item on the differential...
In the fictional novel Saigon, Illinois, the main character, Holder, describes his experience working at a Chicago hospital during the Vietnam War as a conscientious objector beginning in the Summer of 1968. Holder describes the hospital as...
Summers and a couple of winter breaks in college I worked at a car wash in suburban Chicago. This was after I learned auto body work and auto detailing. It seemed to make sense to me to learn how to apply bondo, fix bumpers, paint and buff and...
Here is another piece that did not make it into “A Piece of My Mind” edited for content and lengthened to update from initial thoughts 20 years ago. Like many on Sunday before last, on TV, Facebook and even medical websites, people...
The National Football League (NFL) draft for 2014 recently finished. 3 days, 8 rounds and a total of 256 prospects/new rookies for 32 teams in the league. In my opinion, the NFL draft is the second most popular sport only to the NFL itself....
