“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw For over 30 years as a student, resident, and practicing physician, I analyzed patients and made treatment decisions using the scientific method. A patient’s symptoms led me to formulate a hypothesis...
We have been keeping tabs on the US news from rural Kenya and worrying, not primarily for the safety, health or financial burdens of our friends and family members. No, it is for a purer thing that we fret about our brothers and sisters these days. We fear these...
Blindsided by 2020 20/20 vision represents the standard for normal eyesight as determined by a routine eye exam. However, after being slapped silly by the year 2020, it’s as if we have all woken up in a strange new darkness, groping around without the clarity normally...
Originally posted June 2016 It almost ended there, in a dark cylindrical shaft, not two feet across, and fifteen feet below Earth’s sweeter surface. Floating in raw sewage, the Kenyan baby boy survived because of a simple misunderstanding of buoyancy. By wrapping him...
We may never know her reason for leaving. Did her mother run in fear, in desperation, or simply out of selfishness? In the end, it doesn’t matter anymore. Found crying, hungry, and alone in a vacant rental in Naivasha, the 6-week-old beauty needed a home and a name....
Each of us is born with 100 billion relatively unconnected brain cells, all that we will ever possess. These separate during fetal development into different domains in the brain, areas that later specialize for receiving inputs from our 5 senses, controlling...
