Tag: Frederick Anderson

• A Humble Opinion

  Maybe it’s me; I guess it is. I thought that the medical profession was motivated by vocation – a desire to make the sick well and defend the most vulnerable in our society.   Its values, as I perceived them, were founded upon an ancient and sacred oath.  In return for that vocation, society tends to…

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  April 26, 2016

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• Resolutions

  “Time tae greet the New Year, Freddy!”  My friend raised a glass.  “What’re ye havin’?” Now Scotsmen have a reputation for meanness.  As generalizations go it is not without some substance, but a curious contrariety tends to occur around about the sixth whisky.  Thereafter, from whiskies seven to fourteen the generosity curve steepens logarithmically.  After…

  frederick anderson

  January 5, 2015

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• Ho-Ho-Ho!

  We are at that junction of the years when it is time to gather the strands of the family once more; to weave back together the hems that have frayed, re-kindle the flames that have guttered or died:  for those who can be with us will know our hearth will welcome them, and those who…

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  December 22, 2014

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