Month: May 2014

Parts of us die every day. Units of us that die daily get reabsorbed into the system in keeping with the majestic order of the universe. For example, our tissues recycle when we lose our hairs, cut our nails, shed some blood or move our bowels.   Deprived of nourishment, these discarded cells and body […]

Physicians lose patients all the time. As a physician, I have also suffered from patients’ dissatisfaction and attrition.   There could be many reasons why patients leave their doctors. Some of the main reasons include presumed doctor’s clinical incompetence, gaps in communication between doctors and their patients or just nonspecific mutual dislikes between a patient […]

On many occasions my wife had tried to compel me to join suite on ideas she garnered from a variety of sources such as romantic movies. Recently she had said: ‘that actor threw his wife up in the air, how about you throwing me up in the air?’   That got me scratching my head […]

There are two broad aspects to a person’s memory: first, is the ability to absorb information and second, is the ability to recall recorded information.   Most people do not notice their state of memory until they reach for it but fail to retrieve it. Memory evaporation could be normal in the sensory memory realm, […]

Many people wish that their oppressors could vanish or go to hell. That is human self survival and selfish instinct at work-for the sources of pain to be eliminated. However, invoking God to join in the battle against real or imagined enemy is stretching self survival impulse to an appalling level. Mischaracterization of the nature […]

President Obama can debate, but he sought debate coaches to get him through the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Michael Jordan is a basketball legend, but he needed Coach Phil Jackson to win many of his NBA championships. Tony Robbins, the famous motivational speaker, looked for a coach when he reached the top of his […]