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Tchaikovsky’s Piano – a short story

My recently published short story from The MacGuffin Literary Magazine – volume 40, number 1, November 2024: Maggie Whiteman rarely felt anxious before a concert. Now there was a definite sense of foreboding when the driver, picking her… Continue Reading →

Medical trivia #4: Billroth and Brahms

Using language to convey the magic of Brahms would be like using a wooden classroom ruler to measure the speed of light. … Continue Reading →

March 6, 2019 4

Sweet Emma

The mostly unadorned, dark room slopes down from back to front. There’s room for perhaps 200 people but, as I soon learned, most stand and only about twenty people get to sit in the front, on the floor, on scattered… Continue Reading →

February 10, 2019 6

A Little Piece of Me

Since I was a student at New York’s Stuyvesant High School I have wanted to write fiction. I chose, however, to study medicine and have had a successful career as a pathologist with special interests in liver diseases, autopsy and… Continue Reading →

July 31, 2014 4

Musing of a Contemporary Pathologist

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Tchaikovsky’s Piano – a short story

Medical trivia #4: Billroth and Brahms

Sweet Emma

A Little Piece of Me

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