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Appreciation and Worms

I read recently that if one does not find appreciation in their food -- then both the food on your plate and the food in your stomach will...

One of my heros...sitting in his favorite chair. I bet you have never been sick of museums. Personally, I have not...but my girls,...

I love Rock and Roll. Who doesn't? But for some people, Rocking and Rolling represents their ability to be ill constantly, to not be ...

I had the most amazing adventure -- and on my adventure I learned a thing or two about life, about bitterness, about sweetness and about co...

Having never served in the armed services myself, there is no way that I can begin to understand the overwhelming trauma and stress associa...

It happens to the best of us. We push and push and push. We think we are fine. We think we are more than fine. We think we are strong....

This morning a patient mentioned that she has been feeling a bit melancholy the past few weeks. I asked her if her depression had returned....

Don't you just hate when you go to your health care professional with symptoms and they tell you "well, that's just what it fe...

I had a patient come into my office today in terrible shape. His thirty-seven year old son died suddenly four days ago. I was amazed that ...

Here is one I have been working on for a long time. For years, in fact. Inconceivable! Ah, not true. Very, very conceivable. All the babie...

Today marks one more day farther along in Late Summer (read last two posts for more on Late Summer). Yes, there is dampness in the air...an...

Sometimes objects are larger in person than you'd expect... And sometimes they are not as big as you'd like. Indeed...this happens m...

("Seeing God through the Eye of the Needle"...) On this day, of all days -- commemorative of when Moses went up the mountain...

These are the balloons which I brought this week to the patient in the last post, "The Kidney Freak". This week he celebrated h...

I have a colleague who is an author, a well-respected man in our field. His friends call him a "kidney freak". Now before you g...

Finer Points