Chemo: Work In Progress on World Cancer Day: Men who take women to their medical appointments are one thing. Women who insist on going with their men are another. Elaine insisted, but I insisted first. I wanted my doctors and specialists to know I had a fucking pit bull ready to turn loose on them […]
FIRST CHEMO OPINION ON #WORLDCANCERDAY
February 4, 2021 by David Gillaspie
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WRITE A BOOK, THEY SAID. IT’LL BE FUN, 2
January 18, 2019 by David Gillaspie
What is the goal of writing a book? To get readers to turn the page. Such a modest goal. Should there be any other? I call it a building block, that’s what I call goals. What happens when you achieve your goals, when you have readers turning to the next page. Write another […]
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NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS KNOW NUTRITION FIRST
February 27, 2018 by David Gillaspie
My wife shared a joke with me. She’s a naturopathic physician, Dr. Gillaspie. It had nothing to do with the old television show with young Dr. Kildare and his colleague Dr. Gillaspie. “Early in our practices doctors from my class would talk about what it must be like as an RD, a real […]
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