The Agony and the Ecstasy
January 19, 2017 · magazine_repost, Surgery, Hospitals
My open heart surgery was originally scheduled for 7:30 a.m., November 9—the morning after the election—but a couple of weeks before, I managed to switch it to a day later. Why take the chance that someone vital in the operating room had been up all night watching the returns—or, as it turned out,…
Elective Surgery
January 13, 2017 · Surgery, Magazine, Hospitals
My open heart surgery was originally scheduled for 7:30 a.m., November 9—the morning after the election—but a couple of weeks before, I managed to switch it to a day later. Why take the chance that someone vital in the operating room had been up all night watching the returns—or, as it turned out,…
How the Father Figures
January 28, 2002 · Magazine, Harry Stein
WAS THERE MORE to the John Walker story than we know? For all the tens of millions of words that gushed forth about Walker, and the endless speculation as to how this young man could have gone so dreadfully wrong, has a potentially key element of the case gone almost completely unreported? The…