Lovely ceremony yesterday! So pleased to have shared with loved ones. This is post-medal moment with chef Jose Andres whose restaurant Zatinya we ate in the night before!

Humbled and honored to get this news. Grateful to family, friends, God, luck, wonderful mentors in medicine and in writing ...

I am finally getting to Ethan's latest novel which I could not put down. It is so beautiful, truly a great American novel. Dying to ask him how got such deep insights into mathematics, not to mention his insights into life. I went to medical school because I had no head for math. He went to medical school after the Iowa Writers' Workshop because he thought he had no head for writing! In medical school he found his writer's voice again. He now teaches writing at The Iowa Writers' Workshop. And writes!

Incredible photo essay piece by my Iowa classmate Scott Anderson, in the NY Times Magazin. I had just recently read his book, "Lawrence in Arabia
War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East." There are not many people who know the area as well as he does, having traveled there as a boy and then later as a stringer in Beirut. I learned so much reading the book and this piece.

Jim was one of my teachers at the Iowa Writers Workshop. A gentle man. I loved ELBOW ROOM--the first collection of his that I read.

Have really enjoyed Phil Knight's terrific memoir SHOE DOG My blurb says it all for me: "A great American story." Not sure what I was expecting, but i could not put it down till i was done. I like to fold down pages as I read (alas) and the more ruffled a book looks the more I must have liked it.
I look forward to hearing him speak next week at Stanford.

Happy to see this come out!

RIP, Jim Harrison. His advice for writers was "don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps." (To which I might add, 'and a good day job, one that you love.')
Another quote of his:“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.”
Amen.

So pleased to see how well this book is doing! Go Lucy!

This piece is by Lucy--Paul's widow. I referred to Paul's book "When Breath Becomes Air" in a previous post. I was privileged to write the foreword to the book; Lucy wrote the stunning afterword.

The case for precision HEALTH in a lovely oped. . . by my Dean, Dr. Lloyd Minor.

great review, great book, great man . . .

Mulligans work in golf, but not in bedside exam. Missing is costly! Nice to work w John Ioannidis, Blake Charlton et al on this issue!

Patients have a front side AND a back side and we overlook so much when fail to examine the back. Of course, if we don't examine the patient we miss it all. Happy to see our paper on this subject finally out. It's about a kind of error only doctors would know about. I think the public needs to know.