Suicide 2021
SUICIDE FACTS—Abstracted from a recent AAFP article on Suicide The ambiguity most of us feel about the difference of physical and mental...
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Jun 5, 20211 min read
Recommendations June 2021
Recommendations June 2021 Movies: The Hospital with George C Scott and Diana Riggs. For those in medicine, the dialogue will take you...
Jun 5, 202112 min read
Randy's 42nd Birthday
Randy’s Birthday at the Raffles Hotel Or Do They Cane You For Trivial Infractions in Singapore? I don’t celebrate my birthday and have...
Jun 5, 20213 min read
Shields Green by Louis A Decaro Jr.
THE UNTOLD STORY OF SHIELDS GREEN///LOUIS A DECARO JR. I did not know who Shields Green was. I am guessing you don’t either. If we read W...
May 15, 20218 min read
Randy Stopped Doing Deliveries
Randy Stopped Delivering Babies When asked in the middle of my third year of medical school, which specialty I was likely to choose, my...
May 15, 20214 min read
Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory This topic is showing up on many news fronts. I have some thoughts in a summary form and some links of interest. I...
May 15, 20212 min read
RECOMMENDATIONS. May 2021
Books: The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon — A wonderful book to read aloud to someone who wasn’t a science major....
Apr 2, 20211 min read
Recommendations April 2021
Books: Milagro Bean Field War---- John Nichols--fun novel full of whimsy The Autobiography of Malcolm--- X. Haley--Interesting read in...
Apr 2, 20217 min read
Hacking Darwin
Hacking Darwing by Jaime Metzl This book provides technical information for the layman as well as some helpful discussions on the brave...
Apr 2, 202113 min read
Y2K
Y2K Do you remember what you were doing December 31, 1999? I do. It was Y2K and I took my family with me to the center of the coming...
Mar 3, 20211 min read
Recommendations March 2021
Recommendations, March 2021 I recently read of Southern Baptist using the name, “Jezebel” when referring to Kamala Harris. This finds me...
Mar 3, 202113 min read
In Memory of Erik
Ivanhoe In the Spring of 1971, Erik Ivanhoe drove me to the San Francisco Airport. I had a twenty dollar ticket for the redeye which...
Mar 3, 202112 min read
Hitler's American Model
Hitler’s American Model by James Q Whitman I read a lot about World War II. Some of the thousands of stories about Nazis reference the...
Feb 3, 20211 min read
Recommendations 2/21
Podcasts: For your science nerds, download TWIV (This Week in Virology)app—it’s about viruses, the kind that make you sick…..it is a...
Feb 3, 20217 min read
Kernie's Jury Experience
I have never served on a jury despite an unusual wish to do so. Whether a rumpled student or a polished physician, my lawyer friends...
Feb 3, 202111 min read
The Cutter Incident
Book review: Cutter Incident by Paul Offit MD I belong to a Rotary Club in Lacey Washington. That is weird given my experience with...
Jan 13, 202111 min read
Covid Vaccine Experience
The following tracts my observations volunteering to give Covid Vaccines through a local hospital system. Both Kernie and I, for this...
Jan 13, 202115 min read
the Bible with and without Jesus
The book I wanted to present this month is The Bible With and Without Jesus by Levine and Brettler. I am not a Biblical scholar but I...
Jan 13, 20211 min read
Recommendations January 2021
Given the vaccine theme, try a half hour podcast on the politics of the polio vaccine era: see episode 6, season 1 of “The Last Archive”...
Dec 3, 20200 min read
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