Apr 5, 2019
33 min read
MEDICINE AND THE FRONTIER ‘OLD WEST’
First a little ‘back-story’…
Many years ago, when I was still somewhat romantically inclined, I was going with a lovely young doctor from China. This person, whom we shall fictitiously call ‘Mai’, was maintaining the typically arduous and exhaustive routines of a first year medical resident at the hospital I worked at in Oakland CA. Mai, who was actually what we call a ‘paper daughter’ (a familial…
