Brooklyn Transplant

Musing of a Contemporary Pathologist

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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 →

On Watching “The West Wing”

A play ought to be a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humors, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.           … Continue Reading →

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