Editor’s Note: For 16 years, I've published weekly essays here on Blogspot, which will continue. I’ve now begun publishing my work on a new blogging platform, Substack, and I hope you’ll join me there. Please enter your email address at this link to receive my posts directly to your inbox. I did hospital work for 30 years until I accepted a position almost 7 years ago as an employed staff gastroenterologist at a rather renown Cleveland-based medical institution. I have been enjoying the luxury of practicing outpatient gastroenterology exclusively, freed from the rigors of hospital work and weekend and on-call responsibilities. It’s a job description that I feel I have earned after 3 decades of hard labor, but I was lucky that this position was available to me. During my hospital career, I estimate that I have placed a hundred or so feeding tubes, primarily in elderly patients, many of whom were demented. (In retrospect, gastroenterologists like me were p...
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