This series was started in 2002 shortly after I retired from a 40 year career as a gastroenterologist. My friend and mentor, the late Dr. Howard Spiro suggested I try writing for his online journal, the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine (YJHM). Thus began some 30 pieces of short essays, plays and poems on a variety of subjects, some medical and some not. Some were serious, some frivolous, some doggerel; none great literature. Dr. Spiro kindly edited them, made suggestions and generously published them. By design none of the pieces in the Journal was copyrighted.
Things changed after Dr.Spiro's death a year ago. His successor as editor, and her poetry editor, failed to appreciate either my writing style or my brand of humor, and apparently chose to make the Journal more of a literary classic. My creative impulses were stymied, and I chose no longer to submit my pieces to them. I have therefore transferred my previous pieces, and added my new ones, to this site, where they will be copyrighted.
I hope you, dear readers (if by some miracle there be any) enjoy my work I certainly shall, and wherever he may be, so will Howard.
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