by cutting-edge-publishing | Dec 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
During the Vietnam War, I was drafted, but instead of being sent to Vietnam as I expected, I was sent to a tropical island paradise, Tercera, in the Azores. I treated the Base Commander’s wife. What made this patient special was that her husband was...
by cutting-edge-publishing | Nov 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
The older you get the more important the past becomes. It brings up unforgettable events of your life, and records highlights of your life. I recall famous people whom I remember for their fame, although I quickly learned they are just like the rest of us....
by cutting-edge-publishing | Nov 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
When I was seventy years old and still very active with my surgeon job, but thinking of my glide path to retirement, I got a job offer to start a surgical residency. Now that was something to make one reconsider retirement, so I did it. I started with one resident,...
by cutting-edge-publishing | Nov 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
MILESTONES OF MY LIFE-Part IIDownload Roads often take sharp turns, leading to places that you later realize you should not have taken. One of those turns was a training program that made me a general practitioner. Upon graduation, I was drafted. It was the height of...
by cutting-edge-publishing | Nov 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Life is like a road. Mine had hills and valleys, with some steep climbs, but mostly it has been a good, flat road with just a few potholes. My birth was one of those. I was premature and had jaundice of the newborn, a condition where the bile made by the liver is not...
by cutting-edge-publishing | Oct 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
One of the giants on whose shoulders I stood is the “Father of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)”. He died on October 20 of this year at age 86. I met Dr. Bartlett in 1977 when I started my surgical residency at UC Irvine. He was the head of the burn center...
