The brain location is the result of evolution, but if we talk in simple engineering terms: The brain is located in the head because the eyes are a part of the brain, and the eyes need to be quickly movable in order to take in the world around the creature. Another reason is that the

A female nurse in my girlfriend’s hospital was forbidden by her Muslim boyfriend to be an OR nurse, because time and again “she touched the genitals of other men.” Needless to say, this was, and is, totally ridiculous. Whether the nurse and/or patient is male or female, the medical philosophy should always be about the

My girlfriend recently had a patient who became increasingly erratic and aggressive about her self-diagnosed post-op complications. It all started with “penetrating tailbone pains” and then had quickly deteriorated through “subsequent vertigo” and the anxiety it caused. And now she DEMANDED that the TOT be removed, so that the strain on her tailbone would falter,

My girlfriend had a 28-year-old African patient with early stage prostate cancer. The proposed medical approach was either a radical prostatectomy (which means that the man’s entire prostate had to be removed), or radiotherapy and hormonal treatment. The man was extremely reluctant to make a choice, as either way, possible (and probable) side effects included

Our lovely neighbor cut a Christmas tree in our garden when we were vacationing in the US. I always check our garden when we return from holidays, but this time I stumbled on a very pleasant surprise: one of our Christmas trees, decapitated — or rather: dismembered, ripped apart, halved. (It still lived for a

I once had a girlfriend who systematically acted less intelligent than she really was, especially when her friends and family were near. Her main reason to do so was that she wanted to fit in, and to some extent I understood her. Because actually, she needed to fit in. Her parents — my neighbors, alas — were,

I can literally outdraw anyone. My first published book is a poem collection (with visual artwork by yours truly), entitled “Poems of salvation,” and published by Shoe Music Press. I wrote a novel called “The end of dandelions” (about how love can transcend the end of the world), and have almost finished a new novel titled