Musing of a Contemporary Pathologist

Category Medical practice

Heartless hospitals – part 2 (or multiple tirades prompted by a recent David Brooks column)

I have long been a fan of David Brooks, both in the pages of The New York Times and on his weekly PBS’ News Hour commentary every Friday. He is thoughtful and tries to consider alternative viewpoints. For almost 20… Continue Reading →

Big Bike Man – a short story

This short story was published in the Fall 2021 issue of the literary magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn (http://vol1brooklyn.com/?s=Stephen+A.+Geller)   SUNDAY STORIES: “BIG BIKE MAN” OCTOBER 17, 2021 Big Bike Man by Stephen A. Geller Harry’s office door is closed when he’s… Continue Reading →

Big Bike Man

short story, brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters. Vol. 1 Brooklyn, October 17, 2021 Founded in 2009, Volume 1 Brooklyn engages and connects the literary-minded from Brooklyn… Continue Reading →

A Doctor Who Treats Himself Has a Fool for a Patient

“A Doctor Who Treats Himself Has a Fool for a Patient”William Osler (1848-1919) About four months ago, while showering, I felt a small, soft, movable, dome-shaped lesion on my lower abdomen. After drying off I tried looking at it and… Continue Reading →

Crohn’s, Crohn or will some other name do as well?

What’s in a name?That which we call a roseBy any other nameWould smell as sweet     William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet There was a time when only physicians and medical students knew the name “Crohn.’” Even if you are only… Continue Reading →

Medical trivia #7: Humani nihil a se alienum putabit (nothing human was foreign to him) – Thomas Hodgkin

In these troubled times, as America continues to struggle with, and hopefully comes closer to resolving, the issue of racism decried throughout our history and by so many of our nation’s greatest leaders, I am reminded of Thomas Hodgkin, whose… Continue Reading →

Vertigo

If you are of a certain age the word ‘vertigo’ may bring to mind images of a terrified Jimmy Stewart and the luminous Kim Novak. Perhaps the Golden Gate Bridge will also crowd into your memory, as will the name… Continue Reading →

Protector of Children: Béla Schick

Ben Greene is the protagonist of my still-in-progress third novel. He is a senior pathologist (not a surprise …) and former chairman at a large academic hospital pathology department. Soon after his successor as chairman, Alden Morrison, arrives in the… Continue Reading →

Tsetse and Me

The tsetse fly is a member of the genus Glossina. This blood-sucking fly is indigenous to the equatorial area of Africa. There are about 30 known species and subspecies of tsetse files, but only nine belong to subspecies of G…. Continue Reading →

The Dying Cadaver

The Spring 2018 issue of Rutgers Magazine, the magazine for alumni of the State University of New Jersey (Kate, my wife, is a Rutgers graduate), includes a one-page article, A High-Tech Anatomy Lesson, describing how medical students can be taught… Continue Reading →

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