This coming Sunday is Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews, a day the rest of us ignore, which I believe is a mistake.

In the Southern African country of Lesotho, their language has a word that reflects the wholeness of life, bophelo, whose root means alive.

The patient in front of me looked like she was in her 40s, but the chart said she was 66. Just to be sure, I ask her age.

For those of us who call Memphis home, the waters of the Mississippi River as they flow by approach being sacred.

An older patient came in with high blood pressure and diabetes, but we got them under control.

I've reached an age where I regularly read the obituary page.

That's the way Michael J. Fox of Back to the Future fame has been able to endure the last 30 years of his relentless battle with Parkinson's Disease.

...the World Health Organization would agree with that.

It seems to me that in the long run, if not the short run, life gives back what you put into it.

There are 168 allopathic medical schools in America. There are only 24 optometry schools, one of which is the Southern College of Optometry that was founded in Memphis in 1932.