Reflections on Medicine & Life
I can’t speak for Dr. Phil or Dr. Oz, but no one becomes a doctor because they crave the spotlight. We pick stethoscopes over microphones. If we’d wanted to spend our days giving speeches, we’d have gone into politics or
About four weeks ago, something happened that definitely wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card: I won the District 30 Toastmasters Championship. Which means…I’m now a quarterfinalist in the 2025 World Championship of Public Speaking. That sentence still feels surreal. Why?
“San Diego has to be the worst place to attend a medical conference,” I thought several years ago as I walked into another big, brightly-lit but gray, windowless room in another big, gray convention center. Outside it was bright and