I finished last week on our practice’s inpatient service at Memorial Hospital caring for the sickest of the sick and I noticed something...

A few weeks ago, after nearly two years of doom and gloom, I finally wrote an optimistic column in my local newspaper about the COVID 19...

Winter is Coming: How the holidays, vaccination resistance and a new variant might impact our COVID 19 future It’s hard to believe, but...

The woman looked at me, aquamarine eyes wide and innocent, and said in a serious voice, “Well, you know the COVID 19 vaccines are just a...

I’ve seen this movie before. It’s Jack Nicholson breaking down the door with an axe, a maniacal grin on his face, sticking his head...

Filmmaker John Carpenter has built an entire career around the 10-film Halloween franchise, the central character of which is a seemingly...

Ethan Canin, a physician author who I admire, once said that physicians make good writers because we see “great and terrible things.” No...

It was supposed to be over by now. Remember a year ago at this time, when President Trump announced that he wanted the economy open by...

The woman was far too young. I’ll call her Sharon, although that’s not really her name. Sharon was tiny and slim, almost childlike in...

On December 31, 2019, China first reported a cluster of viral pneumonia cases associated with the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China....

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on in the U.S., the numbers are simply staggering: Over 18.7 million cases and 330,000 deaths, both the...

I wrote my first entry in this blog almost exactly 8 months ago. It was the week my hometown of Savannah, Georgia recorded its first...

“People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots.” --President Donald Trump, October 19, 2020 And so we have it, in a nutshell:...

Surfing the COVID Third Wave: Where Do We Go From Here? The experts told us it was coming—and now it is here, the fall surge in COVID-19...

The shocking announcement, as has often been the case during the Trump presidency, came in form of a tweet the middle of the night. The...

Forty years ago, I was a young man, and the world was a very different place. The headlines back then were all about the upcoming...

First of all, the numbers: Worldwide, there have been over 23 million COVID-19 cases and 803,000 deaths as of this writing...

Randolph Page knows that he has been blessed. I played high school football with Randolph for the Calvary Cavaliers. A classmate and...

It’s a question we doctors get asked all the time, particularly when it comes to medical issues: “What would you do if you were me?” The...

I woke up surrounded by an apocalyptic dust storm this morning. The massive cloud, large enough to see in satellite images, had blown up...