Less than two weeks ago I posted a comment on this blog page after what seemed the lowest imaginable activities promulgated by the current occupant of the oval office: unspeakably cruel comments after the death of Rob Reiner and the… Continue Reading →
We lived in Beaufort (pronounced locally as “bu-fert”), South Carolina from July 1969 to June 1971. I was in the U.S. Navy Reserve and serving two years at the Naval Hospital, Beaufort. Periodically, we would drive to Savannah, Georgia, almost… Continue Reading →
On June 30, 1969, I officially finished my four-year residency in Pathology at The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. The last week was vacation time, enabling me, on July 1, 1969, to begin my two years as “Chief, Laboratory Service”… Continue Reading →
What are dreams? Many people would answer by saying “Dreams” is a beautiful song by the British American rock ‘n roll group Fleetwood Mac. Others would recall that Rebecca du Maurier begins her wonderful novel, “Rebecca,” with “Last Night I… Continue Reading →
I was in college, in the late 1950s, when I first read The Troubled Air, the book Irwin Shaw wrote in 1951 after the great success of his outstanding World War II novel, The Young Lions. The Troubled Air was… Continue Reading →
Shane, a 1953 movie directed and produced by the great George Stevens, is a film about courage and honor and honesty. About the search of a heroic man for his identity. About integrity About community. And about love. Shane… Continue Reading →
My recently published short story from The MacGuffin Literary Magazine – volume 40, number 1, November 2024: Maggie Whiteman rarely felt anxious before a concert. Now there was a definite sense of foreboding when the driver, picking her… Continue Reading →
In the last posting to this blog page—the essay topic was “Medicine in Literature” (https://stephenageller.com/2024/10/12/medicine-in-literature/ )—I considered some of the writings—novels, plays, stories and some non-fiction— in which medicine plays a role. This time it’s films. As briefly pointed out… Continue Reading →
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