Trojan Horse
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Recently, I heard several of my friends say they were going on a News diet. I admit I’ve felt similarly and left the fight periodically for…
Internal Musings
By Dr. Jim Ferguson From time to time patients ask me if I do surgery. Of course, what they mean is do I perform minor surgical procedures, since it is…
Destiny
By Dr. Jim Ferguson In the opening minutes of the movie Saving Private Ryan, an old man is leading his family on a pilgrimage to Normandy and a WW II…
Welcome Home!
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I have always had a sense of wanderlust. And I have been blessed and able to exercise this passion for travel. They say that people’s dogs…
Quislings
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Groucho Marx once quipped, “These are my principles; and if you don’t like these, I have others.” I started thinking about this old joke as I…
Les Couleurs
By Dr. Jim Ferguson “The world stands out on either side, no wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, no higher than the soul…
The Doctor Is In: Winter Itch
By Dr. Jim Ferguson If you’ve got an itch, you’ve got to scratch it; but should you? To borrow from the Bard, “To scratch, or not to scratch; that is…
Rhuematism
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I get as frustrated as anyone else when I hear that our government has given some researcher precious resources to study the mating preferences of fruit…
Altruism
By Dr. Jim Ferguson As I look up at the cloudy February skies and watch the cold drizzle fall, I begin to long for spring. In fact, about the only…
