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 | What Happened to My Family?
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 | My daddy died suddenly on October 30th, 2001. That loss affected my life more than I probably still understand and recognize. I was in my office when a fellow from my home town called me. I remember his exact words, “Wade, there is no easy way to say this. They found your dad dead in his pickup. . ."
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| | Dogmatic, Until it Gets Personal
Friday, May 23, 2008 | There is nothing that can change our opinion and stance on issues like personal experience. I sometimes wish I had what appears to be passion to be really for or really against something, to get on my soapbox, on the bad wagon. However, I am plagued with “seeing both sides” on most issues...
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| | Not Afraid to Die
Monday, May 12, 2008 | In the winter of 1919, my great uncle Roy McCoy developed a cough and fever. The story goes that the country doctor was called and came to his bedside. The doctor didn’t have anything to offer except the basic treatments of the day. Roy got sicker and the doctor was called again. When the doctor left, he told the family that Roy was likely going to die... Read More
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| | Why Doctors are Arrogant
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | The doctor that delivered me (or should have delivered me if he had made it to the delivery)practiced medicine for over fifty years in a very small town. He was plain spoken, brutally honest, blunt, at times rude, but never accused of being arrogant...
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| | Mute Doctors
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | One of the best sitcom episodes I have ever seen was an old black and white Dick Van Dyke Show. This episode was based on the different perceptions of a particular day of Rob and Laura, the leading characters played by Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. Each character saw themselves as the heroic contributor to the marriage while seeing the other as a grouch hardly bearable that day...
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| | A Beautiful Mind
Saturday, April 12, 2008 | The brain is the organ of the mind. One of the mysteries of the world is the human brain trying to understand the human brain. How can the organ of the brain really understand that part of the body that produces thought and emotion? In short, I believe we understand the brain in a very limited manner. Only in the last 30 years have we had the ability to alter the brain chemistry without causing more problems than cure...
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| | Why is Grandma So Confused?
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | I have an elderly patient that is in and out of the hospital with his chronic lung condition. He is a WWII veteran. After a day or two in the hospital, he starts reliving his days in the war. Before it is over, he starts shouting out orders and calling in bombers... Read More
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| | The Fred Sanford Syndrome
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | Fred Sanford is alive and well! Surely you will recall Fred (on the televison show Sanford and Son) crying out while holding his chest, “Here I come Elizabeth, this is the big one!” The only problem was-- death was usually near only when he needed rescue from the wrath of someone... Read More
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