Since I’ve been writing this blog, quite a few people have said to me, “You should write a book!” Let me be clear in my self-assessment—first of all, I don’t have the attention span these days to write a book. A novel has a plot, well developed characters, a beginning, a middle and an ending. … Continue reading No I Could Not Write a Book
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."