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Quotes of the Month
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Summer 2006
No. I have not gone away. I know I have been lax in my WEB LETTER responsibilities but I have many excuses. For the past year, I have been enrolled in an Art Docent's class at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. It's something that I have always wanted to do. I know I'm a frustrated artist, but maybe I'm also a frustrated art historian. They have the classes every two years and I couldn't pass up the opportunity.
During this hiatus from the Preventive Medicine Web Letter, I have been thinking about its future. I am aware of the increasing amount of health care information that is being presented to the American Public by newspapers and magazines. It seems that the newspapers and TV news channels get the new medical literature before it arrives in the Doctor's office. For my approach to be valid, I must constantly review the latest literature so I can abstract and paraphrase appropriate articles for the Web Letter. The further I get into retirement the harder this is to accomplish. With this rationalization in mind, I have decided to change the format of the Web Letter. I will still periodically "climb on my soap box" and comment on current medical issues, but for the most part, I will use the Web Letter to showcase my current art and offer my self published literature for sale.
I will quote prices in the letter and use my e-mail contact as a sale request. Upon receipt of a check or money order for the item desired, I will then mail it to the buyer's address.
Here are some of my current endeavors that are for sale.
ESSAYS:
"One of American Surgery's Best Kept Secrets"
The story of Pres. Grover Cleveland's operation on a yacht.
"My Kingdom For a Catheter"
Sen. Huey Long's assassination
MONOGRAPHS:
Their Last Hours
The story of seven Civil War General's deaths and whether they could have been
saved with current technology.
Advances in American Medicine as a Result of the Civil War
Although devastating, the War did cause improvement in American Medicine
in the 19th century.
POEMS:
Beyond
Autumn Craze
Autumn Foliage
Chancellorsville
Enjoy Life
Eternal City
Life Eternal
Irish Poetry
Ode to a Tulip
Russian Poetry
Retirement
The Feeling
The Panther City
The Rite of Spring
The River
THOUGHTS FOR THE QUARTER
No Artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
- Martha Graham US Dancer and Choreographer
In a free society art is not a weapon…Artists are not engineers of the soul.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-63)
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: "It's clever, but is it art?"
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Take care until next time,
Richard J. Turner, III, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Editor
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ARCHIVES
Summer 2005 - Lung Cancer
Spring 2005 - Preventive Medicine
Winter 2005 - Medical Pearls
Fall 2004 - Women's Health
Summer Trip to Russia
Miscellaneous Medical One Liners
Trip to Ireland
Texas Surgical Society Meeting Notes
The Malpractice Crisis
Treatment and Prevention of Malignant Disease
West Nile/Cancers/Discontent with American Healthcare/Prescriptions
History of Preventive Medicine
