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When I was 12 years old I asked my father for an allowance. Without hesitating he said “sure”. The next thing I knew I had a part-time job at a body shop a few blocks from our house, across the Des Plaines River in suburban Chicago....
My father used to say "You can get anything you need at a hardware store." I used to love going with him to the local Ace Hardware and getting the special screws or bolts and tools for a particular project. The smell, the merchandise packed...
Recently at a golf outing sponsored by our hospital system, I met another physician in my group I had not met before. I had recognized his name from medical records and occasional orders for biopsies or fluid examinations but with thousands of...
Top 10 Reasons Why Pharmacology is Better than Women In response to the “Top 10 Reasons Why Pathology is Better than Men” the males in our med school class came up with list, from the lost book of quotes and lists I recently found. So,...
Since I started college in 1988, I have kept this book purchased at the student bookstore for $1.25 at the time (tag finally fell off) to record quotes, largely from faculty and mentors. They range from the simple "It's better to be lucky than...
Maxwell Street first appears on a Chicago map in 1847. The street was named for a Chicago physician by the name of Dr. Philip Maxwell. It was originally a wooden plank road that ran east-west from the south branch of the Chicago River. The...
