John D. Rockefeller was a fascinating man who lived a long and interesting life. Ron Chernow’s biography of him Titan is probably the best biography I’ve ever read, and I highly recommend it. Rockefeller wrote the following poem at the age of 86 to sum up his life.
I was early taught to work as well as play,
My life has been one long, happy holiday;
Full of work and full of play—
I dropped the worry on the way—
And God was good to me everyday.
Leah was excited to get her first pair of prescription eyeglasses after her eye exam by her ophthalmologist Uncle John Wahl, MD.
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The New York Times has reported on a large placebo-controlled study published in The Lancet that has shown no benefit of acetaminophen versus placebo in patients with back pain. But the author of the study pointed out that acetaminophen has been shown to work for toothaches or post surgical pain, “but the mechanism of back pain is different and poorly understood.”
Diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and with only about four months to live, Michael Reyes decided that cancer was not going to kill his spirit to live, and was able to take his family to Disneyland as his dying wish.
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