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When Medicine, Morality, and Ethics Collide
When Medicine, Morality, and Ethics Collide Medicine isn’t just about lab values and treatment plans. Sometimes it drags you into
When Profit Outweighs Protection: Veterans, Coal Miners, and the Cost of Responsibility
When Profit Outweighs Protection: Veterans, Coal Miners, and the Cost of Responsibility Where do we draw the line between financial
Why Medicine Draws Me In
Why Medicine Draws Me In This one’s not easy. Some memoir topics come quick—this one’s been rattling around in my
How the Cabinet Came to Be: My Journey into Collecting Medical Curiosities
How the Cabinet Came to Be What started with a few dusty old medical books turned into something much bigger.
Going Back to Med School… 1880 Style
Going Back to Med School… 1880 Style Modern medicine? I’ve got that covered. But late 19th-century medicine? That’s a whole
Hell on Earth: Inside Danvers State Mental Hospital
Hell on Earth: Inside Danvers State Mental Hospital Danvers State Hospital (Kirkbride Complex), circa 1893. Public domain. Cropped for presentation.
The Day I Was Internet Famous: Bill’s Net World and the Rise of Online Medicine
The Day I Was Internet Famous: Bill’s Net World and the Rise of Online Medicine Before TikTok, Google, or even
Could a Modern Doctor Survive in 1880?
Could a Modern Doctor Survive in 1880? What happens when a modern doctor imagines practicing in the 19th century—without labs,
The Ghost of Formalin
The Ghost of Formalin Or: How a Smell Pulled Me 30 Years Into the Past I was flipping through
Aged, Bruised, and Bit by a Mad Dog: The Delightfully Morbid Causes of Death in London, 1632
Aged, Bruised, and Bit by a Mad Dog: The Delightfully Morbid Causes of Death in London, 1632 Step aside, myocardial
🎸 Whatever Happened to Old-School Concerts?
🎸 Whatever Happened to Old-School Concerts? I’m not talking about today’s overpriced, overproduced pop spectacles. I’m talking about real concerts.Old-school
Why the Caduceus Is Not the Symbol of Medicine (And Why It Drives Me Nuts)
Why the Caduceus Is Not the Symbol of Medicine (And Why It Drives Me Nuts) Author’s Note: I even have
Today’s Mail Brought… Chiropractic for Tonsillitis
Today’s Mail Brought… Chiropractic for Tonsillitis Ever wonder how to treat tonsillitis without antibiotics? According to one 1930s pamphlet, all
They Laughed at Me—Then Asked Me to Give Medical School Lectures
They Laughed at Me—Then Asked Me to Give Medical School Lectures How a career in medicine taught me the long
The Winter of 1977–1978: A Cold Snap We’ll Never Forget
The Winter of 1977–1978: Cold Enough to Remember Forever Do you remember the winter of 1977–1978? If you lived through
From Scut Monkey to Attending: The White Coat Evolution
From Stuffed Pockets to Steady Hands: The Evolution of a Physician’s White Coat What it means to shed the White
Indiana University School of Medicine Graduation – A Doctor’s Journey Begins (1995)
IU School of Medicine Graduation – A Doctor’s Journey Begins (1995) Looking back at a moment that changed everything. Sunday,
FORE!! – Golf Club Shaft Impaled in Face | Small-Town ER Memoir
Fore!! One man, one lawnmower, one airborne golf club shaft to the face.It sounds like a cartoon—but it walked into
The First Time I Cut a Throat
The First Time I Cut a Throat A moment in trauma medicine I’ll never forget—and why you should never take
How to Get into Medical School: One Physician’s Winding Path from Flunking Out to White Coat
Bebout’s Memoirs How to Get into Medical School One Physician’s Winding Path from Flunking Out to White Coat Everyone has
The Great Vasectomy Vanishing Act
The Great Vasectomy Vanishing Act A Humbling Moment from My Urology Rotation This story includes surgical detail and anatomical references
The First Delivery I’ll Never Forget
The First Delivery I’ll Never Forget By Dr. Bebout Back in 1995, during my residency at Deaconess Hospital in the
The Day I Became a Legend (And Nearly Got Expelled)
The Day I Became a Legend (And Nearly Got Expelled) This is a cautionary tale. A tale of hunger, humiliation,
The Cabinet
A Story About a Doctor Who Was Never Just a Doctor Dr. William Ellery Finch had delivered 1,472 babies, diagnosed