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...

Book review: Cutter Incident by Paul Offit MD I belong to a Rotary Club in Lacey Washington. That is weird given my experience with...

The following tracts my observations volunteering to give Covid Vaccines through a local hospital system. Both Kernie and I, for this...

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...

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”...

TV: Vow, on HBO: If after the election you are bewildered by the devotion of Trump followers who don’t seem to accept reality, consider...

Transient Global Amnesia In my Family Practice, once in a while, I would hear an interesting story related to a transient, hours-long...

Breath James Nestor There are a number of one-word titled books: Salt, Oak, Bourbon. These are all interesting and worthy reads. Breath...

Netflix: My Octopus Teacher---as a biologist, this was fascinating and the free diving off of South Africa was a visual feast. The story...

Randy’s First Malpractice Lawsuit I had three serious malpractice “events” in my career. This is the first. The course load for the first...

There are many reasons to cut back on watching the national news. One of the issues these last months is the recent nomination to the...

Music: William Shatner collaborates with Canned Heat and does a version of "Let's Work Together." As a child of the 60's, this...

Borrowing from A Clockwork Orange, he had used scissors to cut away the fabric over each breast as well.

THE GREAT PRETENDER by Susannah Catalan The history of psychiatry is a minefield—Edward Shorter. Beware of the Shrapnel!—Susannah Catalan...

Recommended books: Lies My Teacher Told Me, by Loewe: published in 1994, he looks at 10 commonly used high school US History Texts and...

PALENQUE Years ago, when getting warmed up in training sessions with fellow administrators, we might get asked a question, like, “Tell us...

Why DO we Irritate the Ones we Love? From a workbook (I have since lost it and don’t have the author’s name) I picked up at a psychology...

ADVOCACY FROM MY LOVELY DAUGHTER, DARBY, WHO LIVES IN ATLANTA I’ve always been a curious person, an information seeker. I like to read,...

RECOMMENDATIONS Podcasts of choice this month 1) Radiolab: Invisible Allies—speaks to some interesting Covid news 2) Freakanomics Radio:...