Author: Fred Gardner

An Encounter With Rumsfeld

After a career as a heart surgeon, Thomas Orvald, MD, came out of retirement to approve cannabis use by patients in Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii. Orvald played college basketball at Princeton in the 1950s. As he tells...

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Marx in the Afterlife

1. According to Bob DylanOn Rough and Rowdy Ways, the album Dylan released as he turned 80, there’s a song called “My Own Version of You” in which he shows us Karl Marx burning in Hell and getting the skin...

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Carmody on the Residency Selection Arms Race

Part 1: On Genghis Khan, Racing Trophies, and USMLE Score Creep by Brian Carmody, MD Genghis Khan was the leader of the Mongol Empire. At its largest, his army numbered around 130,000 soldiers, consisting primarily of a...

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