Current Readings

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1st Ed.)
• Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
• Catfish and Mandala : A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham

• The Gold Cell by Sharon Olds
• The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
• On Poetry and Craft by Theodore Roethke
• The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard

• Specialties: My freewheeling search for a home in medicine has gone through Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, and just about every other specialty except OB-Gyn, Orthopedic Surgery, and Otolaryngology (ear, nose, throat surgery).

• Medical Cognitive Processes:
  • Degowin's Diagnostic Examination
  • Surgical Intuition: What it is and How to Get It
  • Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis by Steven R. McGee

• To be or not to be a doctor:
  • Leaving the Bedside: The Search for a Nonclinical Career

• Kino's Journey: One of the most thoughtful anime series I've seen.
• Films in the Criterion Collection

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