Focus On The Story

In a couple of weeks, I’ll once again be in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the University of Virginia speaking to a group of highly-motivated students who want to be doctors. What I’ll tell them will have very little to do with biology and science, although we will talk a bit about that. Mostly, I’ll be telling…

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Suffering Is A Personal Thing

On most Sundays, I watch Sunday Morning, a CBS news magazine that began long ago with Charles Kuralt, the great chronicler of back road America, as its first host. I’ve loved and watched the show for more than three decades, and this morning, I caught a thoughtful piece about Kathy Bates, the actress from Fried…

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