Category: Letter From the Editor
Letter From the Editor
Last week was the day when, every 6 months, the first few patients in my clinic are the same. They also share several features: all have […]
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An 86-year-old patient recently said to me, “I’m not old, I have just been around a long time.” I sort of related to that last week […]
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There is a vintage poster hanging in my office at work (actually there are several, but I refer to one in particular) from 1930 that depicts […]
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History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. — Julian Barnes With the January 2012 issue of Clinical […]
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All human wisdom is summed up in two words—wait and hope. —Alexander Dumas The waiting is the hardest part. —Tom Petty For the past 10 years, […]
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Can you name the six US airports named after US presidents? Well, I just flew between two of them: Washington National (for the Democrats)/Reagan (for the […]
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. —Albert Einstein How we did it is baffling! Around Labor Day weekend, […]
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Recently, several events have reminded me of how lucky I am to have a second family. Of course at home, I have my wife, daughter, granddaughter, […]
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The Cursing of Cursive “My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of […]
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Cheson’s rule of drug development: The efficacy of a new treatment directly correlates with its negative impact on clinical research. I was asked to give a talk […]
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Old St. Petersburg remains a beautiful stage set but to the Russians it is not what Rome is to the Italians or Paris to the French. […]
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I have returned from vacation a different person. My wife and I spent 5 days in Sedona. (No, not the wine country of California—that is Sonoma. We […]
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Well, it is that time again, the end of the month when my Letter From the Editor is due. As I fly home from a day […]
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When the 525 pounds of stuff were deposited in my living room and dining room, I was quite curious to see what was so important at […]
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According to the Big Bang theory, billions of years ago, all matter and energy were compressed. When this matter rapidly rebounded about 15 billion years ago—forming […]
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The child is father of the man. —William Wordsworth (1888), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918), or Blood, Sweat & Tears (1968) The date of this writing is a […]
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Cogan’s syndrome (nonsyphillitic interstitial keratitis with vestibuloauditory dysfunction) is a rare clinical entity, usually a manifestation of a systemic disorder which is often apparent only after […]
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For the fourth year, it was an emotional day, a splendid day. At 6:30 in the morning, we entered a bare gymnasium, with a few friends […]
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Man plans, and God laughs. –Old Yiddish saying A rabbi and a Baptist minister walk into my clinic, both to be treated for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. […]