Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be...
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As I read through the invite, I could not believe it. Had it really been 40 years? That would make me…uhm, a hell of a lot older then I tell myself I am. Forty years ago I walked across the stage and was handed my...
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There’s a Latin maxim that says ei incumbit probatio qui dicit non qui negat (“the burden of proof is on the one who declares, not the one who denies.”) One of the most sacred tenets in the law is the presumption of innocence. Anyone charged...
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So that’s all it took? A woman’s compelling, honest, sworn statements get wiped out by a belligerent, unhinged, crying man.
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When somebody – be he a student, athlete, priest, doctor, friend, relative, federal judge who’s been nominated to the Supreme Court, etc. – counters a credible accusation of sexual assault with outraged proclamations of being smart, successful, rich, talented, well liked and an all-around good...
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I wrote this in 2015, before the #MeToo movement. It’s all the more relevant now as voice after voice — of both women and men — sound out in the lingering anguish of having been used as a thing. Like so many young college women,...
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. To my children,   I am sharing something with you both painful and personal for me, and the reason why is that I want to break the cycle of abuse, so you, and your children, never ever have experiences like this. Holding these experiences...
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  Steinbeck: The Untold Stories by Steve Hauk and illustrated by C. Kline SteinbeckNow.com, 2017, 172 pp. $12.95 paper Reviewed by Stephen Cooper Reflecting on “the soul of artists and writers,” nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche observed that art “performs the task of preserving, even touching...
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