This small book, entitled Healing Thoughts, Randomly Medical, Second Edition, is a humble compilation of my life's work and experiences, from childhood until the present time, expressed perhaps in dabbler's English. I tend to be a story-teller somehow, but because of my being a physician first and an orthopedic surgeon later, there is in my stories a certain touch of melodrama, but also, of course, medical science.

The contents of this small book are very true and come from the heart, and challenging the themes, ideas and concepts would be fruitless and hopeless. I laid bare my thoughts and feelings here as some sort of an emotional catharsis, and also to picture to those who would read this, that any ordinary person's life, like mine may experience anguish, disappointment and failure, but may also once in a while believe, and truly so, that "the race is not (always) to the swift nor the battle to the strong"...

The essence of medicine as a profession is not curing the patient, but healing him. Healing implies the restoring of not only the physical but also the mental, social, emotional, as well as the spiritual well-being of an individual. The popular idea that health or healing is merely the absence of disease or infirmity is incomplete or inaccurate.

Life is short and "swift as a shadow, short as any dream", as Lysander said in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". One aspect of a man's health is the social well-being that requires the physician to serve the downtrodden and the marginalized - a self- imposed and strongly accepted social responsibility in our present society.

Again, there is the fallacious belief that professional or personal and material success brings in a self-propelling effect called happiness. By having flashy cars, modern condos, beautiful clothes, shoes, and expensive jewelry. Or by vacationing with the beautiful wife abroad regularly. Or yourself alone, enjoying temporary pleasures like 'wine, women and song'. I believe strongly that acts of kindness towards the less fortunate are our virtual savings account or insurance deposits that would spell authentic joy and happiness in our lifetime.

NBS.

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