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You and Medicine have been on the outs for a while. She’s been giving you the cold shoulder when you slide into bed at night. She doesn’t laugh at your jokes the way she used to. She can sense your resentment. What started as a love affair has dwindled to ambivalent interdependence. Medicine cooks, you do the dishes. Breaking routine …
Image above is a 2000 year old child potty trainer from ancient Greece. Accepting turds as a fact of life from an early age prepared me well for a career in medicine. Growing up, my father and great uncle built a small outdoor aviary in our back yard, where we raised tropical finches and quail that we sold to pet …
I graduated high school in the early 90s. Depending on your yardstick, I was too mathlete, too drama, too raised by parents who listened to Julio Iglesias, or too many other things to truly be immersed in the Wu Tang Clan during their heyday. The Tang of my childhood was associated with astronauts, not music. Despite the odds, a couple …