I’ve never been good at snappy comebacks and witty one-liners. I always think of what I wished I had said about two hours after the opportunity has vanished. But today I did okay. I was in the local grocery store known as Harvest Ranch Market. It’s an expensive little place, but known in the community… Continue reading A Rancho Santa Fe Moment
The great Greek physician and teacher Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC) described several kinds of cancer, referring to them with the Greek word "carcinos", meaning crab or crayfish. This name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumor, with the "veins stretched out on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."