March 18, 2025

Screaming into the void

I have noticed a recent disturbing trend. It has probably been going on for a long time, but now it is affecting people close to me. Now that Trump is in power, friends and family who normally use social media for social things are posting strong rhe...

May 16, 2024

Harrison Butker, supervillain

Harrison Butker, supervillain. He needs to be fired from the NFL and canceled from the world. If you haven’t heard, his crime was giving a commencement address at Benedictine College, a small Catholic school in Atchison, Kansas. In that address...

September 9, 2022

How medicine fails

The other day, I got a "courtesy" email from an insurance company asking for my explanation of why I had a higher number of level 4 office codes than my peers.  (Office codes vary from level 1 to level 5 in terms of complexity and...

January 12, 2022

A Pandemic of Testing

I was blessed to be greatly influenced by a wonderful physician.  He was truly a giant, but some would not know that, and he would even perhaps deny it.  He was divisive, to be sure — either loved or hated, never in between,...

December 9, 2021

A Call Out to Physicians

When I was in medical school, I had the privilege of working in a large inner-city hospital, located right between two rival gangs.  There were no emergency room residents, so trauma was handled by the general surgery residents.   As s...

November 13, 2021

Forming an alternative society in the age of COVID

From the balcony of the square, thousands looked up to see a most unlikely figure emerge: a stout middle-aged man, with thinning gray hair and deep eyes.  The first non-Italian to stand there since before time.  His first words to...

October 21, 2021

Physicians and the Vaccine Tyranny

I find myself in the position that I must use an alias for fear of reprisal.  Those days may be quickly coming to an end, as hospitals are denying requests for vaccine exemptions with impunity.  I will likely soon be out the door, with noth...