Here’s a great story of performing under pressure: A doctor in rural Australia used a household drill to bore into a skull of a young boy with a head injury, to drain a potentially-lethal blood clot. The local hospital did not have neurosurgical tools or a neurosurgeon on site, and the young boy was in […]
True story: I was walking around downtown Orlando recently, and I came across an old-time barber shop. “Haircuts for men and boys”, the sign said, “eight dollars”. Seemed like quite a deal. About a block further down the same street, I came across another barber shop. This one had a sign in the window, “We […]
DHEA supplements are widely claimed in the lay press to help with a huge number of diverse conditions: anti-aging, cardiovascular disease, chronic fatigue & fibromyalgia, body building, obesity, osteoporosis, sexual dysfunction, and lupus – just to name a few. Most of this excitement was based on positive results seen in early scientific studies done in […]
Last week, we lost a very special person here in the Orlando area, when Mark L. Parker passed away. As a rookie Correctional Officer full of promise at age 19, Mark was seriously wounded in the line of duty, at a shootout at the Orlando courthouse some 25 years ago. Two other officers were killed. […]
