Dec 23 2017
As this year comes to a close, I still remember fondly the months I spent bicycling the Continental Divide from New Mexico to Montana. At first I thought it would be a physical challenge to go the entire north-south length of the United States, about 2000 miles. In the beginning, it was. But as the …
Dec 21 2017
[Edited for 2019] According to Vietnamese (and East Asian) tradition, I hold a memorial for Ruth each year on December 26. This year (2019) it will be on Thursday. In Viet-Nam, the tradition is called giổ, which I wrote about here. This will be the 9th one I’ve done. It will have been almost 10 …
Sep 30 2015
September was an awful– and tearful– month. Last week, I put Saya, my pigeon of 2 years, to sleep. The vet gave her an injection and she was gone. Four weeks earlier, Stafani, my dog of 16 years, was also given an injection. Saya is buried in the backyard with a stone marker. Stafani’s ashes …
Aug 26 2015
I read in the New York Times the other day (NY Times, Doctors Behaving Badly, 8/21/2015) that a medical journal decided to print a very descriptive essay recounting several incidents of flagrantly and morally obnoxious behavior by surgeons in the operating room. The move by the journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, is significant, and to …
Aug 02 2015
“Has she had menopause yet?” This tell-tale question would be the main indicator leading the lawyers to not pick up the case of Ruth’s death. In a March 26, 2015 LA Times report, a young plaintiff named Anna Rahm won $28 million compensation against Kaiser Permanente for a medical error doctors committed. At issue was …