What Being a Best Doctor ® Means to Me

Whenever I watch an award show, like for example the Emmys or the Oscars, I wonder why we don’t have such awards for physicians. So many professions have recognition for a job well done, an accolade, and a confirmation that the training, the effort, the long hours,...

Remembering D-Day and Alastair Frew

  The 6th of June 2014 marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the landings on the Normandy Beaches. Those landings began Operation Overlord — the Battle of Normandy — the mission to free occupied France. On that day 160,000 allied troops crossed the English...

Stitches: The Surgeon, the Saddler and the Tailor.

We all worked with our hands, we just had different tools and worked on different materials, be it fabric, leather, or human tissue. Our basic tools, however, were a needle and thread. When I was growing up in Scotland, I remember studying my dad as he worked at his...