PinnedMember-onlyFor a Moment, You Saw Me DifferentJuly 21, 2021 She said…I hate living with these old people…in this old people’s house… You mean assisted living? Yes…I hate it Why…they take good care or you…she grimaced, frowned and spit all at the same time…yes…but the food sucks…I hate this wheelchair…I hate my clean apartment and these old…2 min read2 min read
Aug 31Member-onlyI’m an out of the closet liberal who ran for congress in a very red ‘hood who has deconstructed…I’m an out of the closet liberal who ran for congress in a very red ‘hood who has deconstructed from a “Shiny Happy People” confident Evangelical to an evolving normal human being with two adult children, one adult child gone to God, one wife, two dogs and a backyard which…Humor3 min readHumor3 min read
Apr 18Member-onlyVasectomy or PrisonVasectomy or Prison April 17, 2023 After a lifetime of the practice of urology, I quit my job employed in hospital-based industrialized medicine and ventured out on my own. I am now a full-time travel doctor and have ordained myself, “TheVasectomyKing.com”, so I read with great interest these articles discussing…Abortion3 min readAbortion3 min read
Jan 20, 2022Member-onlyIt Was All BullshitIf you were from Charlotte North Carolina in the 1980’s you knew three things: NASCAR, Tobacco, and the PTL Club and they all went together, loosely. NASCAR and Tobacco are acquired tastes but one could not help but be fatally drawn to the spectacle of Jim and Tammy Faye…Religion6 min readReligion6 min read
Nov 22, 2021Member-onlyI’m Not Your Friend, I’m Your AdvocateI’m Not Your Friend, I’m Your Advocate I should have known. The year was 2001. I was on the way to work and NPR was doing a story on the “Epidemic of Untreated Pain”. Multiple studies published in journals I don’t read were clear that nationally, pain was not…Mental Health6 min readMental Health6 min read
Nov 5, 2021Member-onlyMental Illness is not a Casserole DiseaseMental illness is not a casserole disease. You can stand up at Wednesday night prayer meeting and say, “please pray for my grandmother, she has cancer”. You can post on FaceBook that you had a heart attack and then everyone feels bad and brings you lasagna. When you stand up…Mental Health5 min readMental Health5 min read
Oct 21, 2021Member-onlyDear Grammar matrons, I sit corrected.Dear Grammar matrons, I sit corrected. Thank you for pointing out my obvious grammatical and spelling and other errors. I still don’t know what those errors are. I suspect errors of tense. I’ve written 20 stories for Medium, I have 208 followers and have cashed checks from Medium totaling $204.56…Christianity4 min readChristianity4 min read
Oct 15, 2021Member-onlyI Faked it AllMy best high school friend Mark and we’ll call him Mark because that’s his name.The decade was the 80’s and we were Baptist making us confident of most things and certain of the rest. Baptist’s share a common trait with Catholics and Jewish folks and that is guilt. We…Religion5 min readReligion5 min read
Aug 16, 2021Member-onlyDoc, one More Thing, Shut the Door.Doc, one more thing. Shut the door. I had known this man for two decades and to say he was complex was unfair. He was a labyrinth of tangled self-induced misfortune. He was smart, he was proud and his choices were always poor. His father loved him as only a…Mwc Death6 min readMwc Death6 min read
Aug 5, 2021Member-onlyAre You F***ing Stupid?I operated on a young man last month. While visiting him afterwards he was very appreciative of my work and care and the like. I allowed those compliments to wash over me as any surgeon whose done their job for 25 years does. I asked if he’d had his Covid-19…Health3 min readHealth3 min read