Category: Letter From the Editor
Letter From the Editor
Well, the book group met again last week, this time with appropriate refreshments (the wine from my personal cellar), and the attendance was triple what it […]
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Patients often bring me articles or clippings to read, and occasionally a book they think I would enjoy. Generally, the books end up on my ever-growing […]
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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 […]