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Anything Else To Say? As we move through the Winter, the days have been warmer than usual in Memphis. There seems a lot of people coming down with flu like symptoms, even one of our staff members was out last week with some kind of upper respiratory crud . William Osler, M.D. is considered by many to be one of the greatest physicians to have lived at the turn of the nineteenth century. He was a prolific author and lectured throughout Europe and the United States. In a copy of his book... Read More

Nature This past week sparked many ideas about my blogs: the politics of our land, the patients' chief complaints, discussing various brands of religion, the news media, the over use of social media, etc., etc. Finding a subject for a relatively short blog is sometimes difficult at the same time challenging. Today, I choose to write about nature. There are times we all have something or someone we have to face for whatever reason. Sometimes we are profoundly disturbed by the death... Read More

Weather Last week was filled with drastic weather changes on several days from hour to hour. Weather is an unusual phenomenon. Weather is the condition of the atmosphere ; hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy , clear or cloudy . Most weather events occur in the troposphere , just beneath the stratosphere . Our common understanding is that weather refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity. Climate however, is the term reserved for the accumulated changes of... Read More