I’ve read “Psycho-Cybernetics” by Maxwell Malt four times now. He was a plastic surgeon in the early part of the 20th century. The book is a look into Dr. Malt’s theory that the self-image is the most important part of the personality and that the self-image can be … [Read more...]

My youngest bites his nails almost down to the bone. They are routinely bleeding. I mean, these things are awful and painful, especially when everything is so dry in the wintertime. In the OR the other day, we were comparing whose kids are the grossest. We were swapping stories of nosepickers and … [Read more...]

Don’t know if you’ve seen it, but, if not, allow me recommend “Gotham” on Netflix.  The character development is a masterpiece.  They take characters that you’ve known for thirty years, characters that you know every intimate detail about, and they create them as if they are totally … [Read more...]

Blurry ECGs on exams would drive me crazy. You can’t see the boxes, let alone count them. Is that a P wave or just a smudge? Ugh, you have got to be kidding me. I mean are they really trying to see how many times these exams could be photocopied before you can’t see anything at all? For god … [Read more...]

Once upon a time, I was working on an anterior L5-S1 interbody fusion. In this case, the patient had degenerative disc disease, and the vertebra were literally rubbing up against each other. On the x-ray, you could see giant osteophytes and an obvious compression of the disc space that even I … [Read more...]