Nov 4, 2025 | Book Reviews
In medicine, every incision tells a story of courage, compassion, and the fragile balance between mastery and humanity. Great Joys, Great Sorrows, the fourth volume in A Surgeon’s Tale, is more than a memoir. It is a deeply personal and reflective journey through the...
Apr 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
In 2015 I published an article in the Columbia Medical Review outlining one of the most horrifying cases of hospital-induced malnutrition leading to death. You can read that article here. Years later, malnutrition in hospitalized patients persists. See the following...
Nov 2, 2017 | Book Reviews
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The Remains of the Day (Vintage International, 1993) is by Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of eight novels who won the 2017 Nobel in Literature. I first read this book twenty plus years ago. Re-reading it, I was...
Oct 5, 2017 | Book Reviews
Morenga (Uwe Timm, New Direction Books, 1978) is set in German West South Africa in the first decade of the twentieth century. This historical novel recounts the conflict between the colonial German Empire, and the rebellious Hottentot and Herero tribes, led by the...
Jun 21, 2017 | Book Reviews
José Saramago is one of my favorite foreign writers. His vivid writing style, and long sentences which meander sometimes the full length of a paragraph, allow the reader to savor the words and the cadences of the language—poetic prose. In The Stone Raft (English...
