Category: Education

I was a social smoker of cigarettes, that is, there was a time in the 70s and 80s when if everybody else was smoking cigarettes, I'd smoke them, too. At...

When I was just a toddler, I took Baby Aspirin for feverish earaches, not knowing I was allergic to aspirin. I was sick for days after, wheezing, coughing, and stomach...

I was one on those people who got headaches rarely. And I never had migraines even though the overwhelming number of my friends did. I'm lucky in that respect. But...

My friend at times can't help but scratch her itchy skin and scalp furiously. She had a hemorrhagic stroke 10 years ago and is brain-injured. Now I know why. This...

At one point, a very long time ago, I wished that there were Emergency Room memberships for me and my two boys, like the gym or Weight Watchers, for example,...

When I had a hemorrhagic stroke, I had blood clots in every extremity (that is, arms and legs), I found out later. The docs put me on Heparin, an anticoagulant,...

My friend, "Beanie," a neighbor and prominent gynecologist, had a brain tumor and died 6 months later. He was the second person I knew who had a tumor. The first...

My father had a 10 lb "ultra-processed" salami log dropped off at his auto parts store every month or two by a thankful customer who owned a delicatessen. He brought...