It’s fairly well-known that I’ll go to almost any length to avoid the medical system. I strengthened a knee rather than have a severed ACL repaired. I found a natural solution to the chronic diverticulitis that my then doctor wanted to have operated on. I drink enough water every day to start growing gills, all to avoid a recurrence of a passing kidney stone. Read more

With one hand supporting my left thigh, the orthopedic surgeon gently flexes my knee. “Yep, a torn ACL,” he says, referring to a small ligament that many an NBA player has had surgically repaired, not always successfully. Read more

It isn’t a good sign when your surgeon is taking your suggestions on how to do his work. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Read more

I’m a reluctant user of the medical system. An annual physical.  One dermatological scan per year.  A colonoscopy every ten.  And that’s it.  The rest I avoid like the plague. Read more