“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“The lung is a sort of cushion for the heart….“ Niccolo Massa, 1559 Recent events at the Vatican have sparked a lot of interest in thoracic surgery. Many on the internet and within the media, are discussing lobectomy. Which raises the question, do they even know what a lung lobe is? Each of our lungs… Read more

“A mindful practice, disguised as productivity…” Ruder Carroll We all enter raffles with a mixed sense of hope, charity, guilt, obligation, awkwardness and eventually disappointment. You know what I mean, hearing the “winner is an orange ticket…” when your handful are all blue. Well not any more for me, I finally had success.To be exact,… Read more