
Welcome to my substack. As a lifetime reader, I felt it was time to get out of the stands and onto the playing field by writing my own stuff. My interests are wide ranging so you might find anything on my site. Medicine, of course is close to my heart.
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There is much in life that we do not get to choose. We cannot choose when we wish to be born, to whom, or where. We have to make do with those and other circumstances even when we wish they were otherwise.
One t...
Northern California coast
I just returned from a week in California. My trip took me to San Francisco, Carmel via US 1, Sacramento via California 152 and I-5, the Yuba River State Park, the Elk Cove Inn in Elk, and back to San Fran. We saw...
All politics is local.”
Former Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill
Let me say at the outset that the Covid pandemic was awful and the level of mismanagement from the federal government on down was unprecedented in my lifetime. U.S. citizen...
I met the recent news that the U.S. had agreed to import more beef from China (or was it that China agreed to export more beef to the U.S.?) with more than a little ambivalence. My feelings may be better described as annoyance bordering on...
Call it irony, hypocrisy, cognitive dissonance, elitism, whatever. I would use a different description: existential stupidity, the kind you only hear from educated, elite intellectuals. The kind that can get you killed. Think Malcolm Caldwe...
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I was a plastic surgeon for 35 years. Now I hope to use my passion for writing to push back against illiberal, progressive ideology, and to explore other issues of interest. As a Christian, I value critical thinking and clarity over blind agreement.
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