Fifteen years ago, I had a patient who was crazy. He called himself the Red Baron, and drove a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado around town, red with the biggest tailfins you ever saw. He wore a scarf, and goggles, and smiled and waved at everyone he passed on the road. Everyone knew he was a few… Continue reading Men Who Stare At Goats
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."