In his double-wide wheelchair, the old boxer patiently awaited the first dance. Not many big men survive into their nineties, but colon cancer, bladder cancer, and a slow growing kidney cancer had not taken Stash […]
University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine 5/16/2020 “Dean Carreiro, members of the faculty, board of directors, and graduating class of 2020, thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk with you today. […]
TV journalist Rob Caldwell came to Peaks Island to interview me about the story behind the stories of Go By Boat. I was particularly pleased that it was Rob; his first job in Maine was as […]
A bank of gray clouds rimmed the horizon. I turned onto a long gravel driveway leading to the medical clinic in Gray, Maine, and heard a distant rumble. After 2 years of basic science classwork […]
As a brisk north wind rattles the windows in my living room, I watch a home-made video, Bagheera Comes Home, created by high-school student, Evans Huber of Peaks Island in 2002. I pause the […]
Reprinted from Helios Rheumatology: March 2021, by Dr. Chuck Radis The lobster boat tied off at the wharf. It was Ben Shipman, my rheumatoid arthritis patient, and he offered me a ride to Chebeague Island […]
A young man sits down at my Covid-19 immunization station at Maine Medical Center and stares resolutely ahead, focusing on the far wall. He looks nervous. I make sure the needle and syringe are outside […]
Stretched out on my side amidst tangled clumps of bittersweet and knotweed, my face nearly kissing the listing hull of the abandoned sailboat, I tugged on an exposed timber half-buried in the sand. My head […]
I am no stranger to misbehaving cars. When I was twenty years old and carless, I hitch-hiked from Maine to Florida to visit my older brother Steve. Most folks who pick up hitch-hikers are friendly: […]