Another peanut poisoning, another failed attempt to revive the afflicted, perhaps another attempt to blame the innocent. It is distressing to read such stories. This one filed by Toronto Star’s Quebec bureau reporter Allan Woods and published in the front page of the paper on Friday, June 17, 2016. Twenty-two years ago today, June 30, […]
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Etymology, what does it mean? I could have googled it; instead, I asked my eldest son. You wouldn’t know, he said, you are an engineer! I get that a lot lately. He took IB English in HS and a classics course in med school. At that age I was pushing slide rule and T-square! Taking […]
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The ill wind of euthanasia blows across this land of plenty. Euphemisms abound (Killing Career Choice, Dying With Dignity, Farewell, Right to Die, Dignitas assisted dying, Compassion & Choices). The poor souls fail to realize that a gatekeeper is allegedly capable of orchestrating a respiratory arrest, or a cardiac event at any time—covert in old […]
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What happened to Bobby? You like to know? Come with me—read with open eyes, and experience with open mind—ascent the elevator, slowed by religious practice, to a transition point where an overworked chief overlooks a closed world—just keep them comfortable and let the nature take its course. You discover the fragility of life where dismissing, […]
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A man of exceptional intelligence, Dr. Bobby Chaudhuri showed early promise with his outstanding academic achievements: in Toronto, at the Terry Fox public school and at the Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute; in Calgary, at the Western Canada High School IB program, at the University of Calgary, and at the School of Medicine in Calgary. He […]
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The dots were clear in the clear summer night of June 30, 1994. •He was alone in his Montreal apartment, with a woman. •He had made the apartment meticulously nut free, for he was allergic, anaphylactic. •The woman knew. •They were drinking wine. •Then it happened. •Suspecting nut poison, he jabbed himself with a preloaded […]
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To reviewer Dr. René Ducharme, “the story (Medical Malady) looks like a criminal investigation at the beginning but ends up to be a long and hard battle into the Canadian medico-legal system.” On the contrary, the real story one may say, is about acquired brain injury, recovery, role of caring doctors, nurses, therapists, the role […]
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