The Operation and Recuperation I had to starve myself for three whole days prior to the operation.  I could consume only clear liquids, like water, weak tea, Gatorade, and popsicles.  No beer or alcohol, either.  I was starving when I reported for surgery at some ungodly hour like ...

Making a Decision:   Odds, schmods.  Statistics are aggregates of individual cases.  They don’t tell you anything about the individual.  They may guide you in your decision making process, but they don’t make the decision for you.  My odds of getting cancer were now...

A word about my father.   In June 1974, when he was 50 years old, my father retired.  He had seen four of his five children through college.  The fifth, my younger sister, graduated from high school that same month.  She had a full scholarship to the University of Dayton.
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Since discovering that I discovered that I had prostate cancer, I told as few people as possible.  At work, only my secretary and medical director knew.  My medical director is also my personal physician.  My wife and two daughters know, and my Swedish daughter, who is a doctor in ...

In my previous blog on vending machine vigilantes, I stated that removing vending machines in schools would prove to fruitless in the battle with childhood obesity, as obesity is multifactorial in nature.  Getting one's weight in the healthy range requires a combination of both good diet and pl...