Anecdotally Speaking

It was a quintessential moment, fitting for a rural medical practice. I was on my hands and knees in the dark cramped kitchen of a patient...

He was bigger-than-life and big in true life with a loud Texas drawl that boomed in the distance before you even saw him. Ruddy, barrel-che...

Intrepid adventurers, experienced, seasoned, weary from explorations in the sultry depths of the Amazon jungles and atop the rarefied height...

Reducing my office schedule to two days a week, because of my new medical director responsibilities, is creating problems from a sometimes-o...

Yesterday I get up early to head off to my new job in the city. I have an appointment at 8:45 AM to sit in on a treatment session of an out...

"The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studi...

"To demand perfection is to deny your ordinary (and universal) humanity, as though you would be better off without it." --David Ba...

This morning, as I started down my driveway toward the highway, I spied my next-door neighbor moving down the drive ahead of me. The frozen ...

It was one of those icy, wintry nights, when you can feel yourself being slowly petrified into a frozen block of ice by the unrelenting fros...

Ain't it just heck, getting old? The perils.

I walk into X-ray and find a young man sprawled out on a chair with both of his feet bare, shoes, socks and coils of ace bandages pilled in ...

"Dr. Bailey, this is a patient like any other patient, there is no room for error , which means there is no room for nerves, shake it o...

If anyone is looking for evidence that I am certifiable then let me oblige. I have incontrovertible proof that I am loosing it. Let me exp...

I sat at the small square desk in the corner of the exam room holding a crinkled plastic shopping bag stuffed with a variety of prescription...

The patient is about my age. I do not know her well. She usually sees one of my partners, but on this day the pain was exceptionally bad s...

The last patient on a busy Friday was a friend of mine. He came in with his wife. We have very successfully treated the effects of his so-...

It is always difficult when a patient dies, even more so when the patient is a baby. This is an account of the first time I lost an infant ...

It was Friday before the holiday weekend. The staff had been working hard to finish so that the office could close early enough to give eve...

The relationship between physicians and pharmaceutical representatives is unique. I have worked in an office practice of one type or anothe...

I was driving home one day when I spied black smoke crawling into the cold sky near where I live. It was a thick, heavy, dark smoke with an...

We call unsolicited promotional material in our mailbox junk mail and in our email spam. What do we call this stuff when it gets to us by f...