Recall Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear …

Recall Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear …

The blaring theme of the William Tell Overture, with trumpet fanfare, and its “off-to-the-races” tempo harkens one of my favorite TV shows: The Lone Ranger. In fact, the stirring theme song was known to me only as “The Lone Ranger,” knowing nothing about Gioacchino Rossini or opera. The Lone Ranger, a masked man played by Clayton Moore, somewhat of a paradox and a mystery because only bandits w...

Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.

There were giants in those days.

As known, to finish this book, you may not need to get it at once in a day. Doing the activities along the day may make you feel so bored. If you try to force reading, you may prefer to do other entertaining activities. But, one of concepts we want you to have this book is that it will not make you feel bored. Feeling bored when reading will be only unless you don't like the book. there were gi...

Those were the days: looking back at the future.

The central idea of this "article" is that certain developments such as extreme simplification, the politicisation of medical ethics, the "normative industry" and "empirethics", may seriously threaten the (future) practice of medical ethics. 25th of November 2025, Rotterdam, Europe THOSE WERE THE DAYS: LOOKING BACK AT THE FUTURE Nowadays, in 2025, there are no more conferences. There is, of cou...

A thrilling case of hiatus hernia.

A 65 year old woman was found to have a left parasternal heave and a systolic murmur associated with a thrill. A chest radiograph, echocardiogram and gastrograffin swallow demonstrated a massive obstructed hiatus hernia which displaced the heart anteriorly. Aspiration of the contents of the hernia led to complete resolution of the physical signs. Possible mechanisms for their production are dis...