Musing of a Contemporary Pathologist

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Stephen A. Geller is a nationally and internationally known pathologist with special interest in liver diseases, the autopsy and medical history. He is chairman emeritus of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he spent 28 years, and has taught pathology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, at UCLA and at Weill-Cornell in New York. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he now lives in Manhattan with his wife, Kate. In addition to hundreds of scientific articles, book chapters and two pathology textbooks ("Histopathology" and "Biopsy Interpretation of the Liver" in its second edition) his first novel, "A Little Piece of Me," was published in 2014. He has had 6 short stories published. He is currently completing other novels and short stories.

Beethoven, the Conductor

            Beethoven!             The name is immediately recognizable across the world, even by people who have never listened to classical music.             For some, the name will sound in their head as something like: da-da-da-dum.             For others, it will… Continue Reading →

Elizabeth

    When Queen Elizabeth met with the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, a week ago, on September 6, I remarked to my wife how well the Queen looked, in the brief news clip, as she stepped briskly to the… Continue Reading →

Ugh – a short story

Charlotte ate at Holly’s seafood restaurant more times than she could count. Annual gatherings with a dozen or so friends, beginning in their senior year of high school and still continuing as a few of them were starting menopause, even… Continue Reading →

Garbo Revisited

Every now and then the name of Greta Garbo is injected into a conversation (sometimes by me). It is always surprising, and even a little disappointing, to find many people, including some close to my age, who have never seen… Continue Reading →

My Mother’s Violin

In 1994, as I was approaching my 55th birthday, I realized one of my (many) regrets in life was that I never learned to play the violin, an instrument whose music I very much love. I own a violin –… Continue Reading →

A Doctor Who Treats Himself Has a Fool for a Patient

“A Doctor Who Treats Himself Has a Fool for a Patient”William Osler (1848-1919) About four months ago, while showering, I felt a small, soft, movable, dome-shaped lesion on my lower abdomen. After drying off I tried looking at it and… Continue Reading →

On watching Bernstein conduct the Tchaikowsky 4th Symphony

You should watch the 1990s video of Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra playing the Symphony #4 by Tchaikowsky as soon as you can but you have to do it before mid-day July 16, 2021 when the New… Continue Reading →

Crohn’s, Crohn or will some other name do as well?

What’s in a name?That which we call a roseBy any other nameWould smell as sweet     William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet There was a time when only physicians and medical students knew the name “Crohn.’” Even if you are only… Continue Reading →

Beethoven’s 250th; a half century of celebrations

  December 16, 2020 In 1970, 50 years ago, we lived in Beaufort, South Carolina. As noted in a blog post a few weeks ago (https://stephenageller.com/2020/10/12/on-listening-to-chopins-g-minor-ballade/), the city of Beaufort in North Carolina is pronounced in the French manner as… Continue Reading →

I love my watch

I love my watch When I was in college I had an inexpensive Timex watch with a Speidel expanding watch band. I am right-handed so, in keeping with accepted styles, I wore it on my left wrist. In those days,… Continue Reading →

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