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One could start with 11th century Avicenna, but in this brief essay about medical doctors who became writers, let’s first look at Michael…
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Children, especially males I am thinking, often go away for long periods once they are grown. I recall, in my 20s, going overseas to work, not returning…
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Alexander Borodin was not only a composer, but also a medical doctor and chemistry professor.Rimsky-Korsakov recalls in his memoirs [ref.1, p34] ‘...I…
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‘Something there is that doesn’t love a wall’ – begins Frost’s famous poem of 1914. [Ref.1.]Our boundary with Mexico runs 1954 miles from California…
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I’ve known people who run to a doctor for what often seem to me the most unworthy of causes. I am not one of those. In fact, I’ve been told a few times in…
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Paul Robeson, who was born in 1898, said in the 1960s (after a public reading in Toronto) that he had but one purpose in life: “to fight for my people…
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A son suggested, after the two young women who had purchased my pop-up camper had driven away, that I ought to recall a few trips.And he has a point. As…
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Those giants of astronomy, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, were both born in the 1500s. It’s never been clearly established how Tycho died, but there…
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When I first heard about Ole Roemer I fleetingly thought the speaker was being overly familiar – but not so. Ole is a Norse and Viking name. For example,…
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My first US car, bought in 1965, was a 2nd hand Chevy Corvair. Ralph Nader, in his book “Unsafe at any speed”, famously slanged the Corvair – and…