When the Healthcare System Lets You Down Several years ago a promising baseball pitcher in his twenties was destined for stardom.  He had...

Going through the economic and emotional acrobatics of buying a car is not the highlight of my world. However, it is one of those...

Dr. Edward Creagan spent four decades at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, working as a cancer specialist and then helping to develop the...

It really does not take much to make a difference in someone’s day, in someone’s life. Let me explain. About twenty years ago an...

We can become numb by the relentless news cycle that can focus on the negative. But every once in a while, a brief sentence can change...

Jerry Maguire was a brash sports agent representing a player for the Arizona Cardinals, wide receiver Rod Tidwell, who demanded a lavish...

Once upon a time the term GOAT was a term of derision to describe someone who underperformed under pressure. The player who fumbles the...

Almost 100 years ago, Harvard University enrolled several hundred individuals in a long-term study of why some people live longer than...

Having lived a somewhat nomadic existence in childhood because of family commitments, I understood the chaos and the emotional energy and...

Phil was right. The groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter, and he was right. For the last several months, we here in the upper...

Scenario 1: You’re in the exam room, sitting in an open-backed gown. You and your doctor have discussed your high blood pressure (stay on...

The recent statement from the family of President Jimmy Carter opens the door for a crucial conversation about end-of-life decisions for us.

Once upon a time—and you know when I start with those four words, I’m taking you down a retrospective path—medicine reflected a sacred...

We live in a world of constant, unpredictable, intermittent inattention. We are bludgeoned and bombarded with a tsunami of digital...

A common medical term is sequela. You pronounce it like this: seh-QWEL-uh. And it means the after-effects of a disease. In other words, a...

In the 1939 iconic musical fantasy, Wizard of Oz, Dorothy cradles her little dog Toto when a tornado transports them from her home state...

A casual comment by a colleague came out of the blue: “I am just tired of the pandemic, tired of the political discourse, tired of this...

An international chess game is brewing as Russia has positioned more than 100,000 troops close to the border with Ukraine. Any further...

The virus variants affect us all, and our lives hang in the balance Growing up in the murky world of thoroughbred racing on the East...

First, some numbers. In 1962, 71% of women ages 15 to 44 married. By 2019 this number was down to 42%. In 1962, 5% of women ages 30 to 34...