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Texas Medicine After the Civil War

The first 25 years after the Civil War, Texas emerged as the fabled home of ranchers, cowboys, and gunfighters. In Texas, when legend generated more interest than facts, newspapers printed

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Civil War Surgeon

Leonard Coleman’s great-grandfather, Dr. John Thomas Bolton, was born in Georgia, March 22, 1839, the son of Colonel Charles and Mary Bolton. In 1846 he moved with his family to

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The Last of the Rural Surgeons

As regular readers of this blog know Leonard O. Coleman, MD of Navasota, Texas shaped my life as a physician. Leonard came from a family of physicians dating back to

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Scott Peck, MD: Words Written, Words Willed

He was a gin-sodden, marihuana-inhaling, parent-resenting, chain-smoking adulterer who, by his own admission, failed to live a life his words advocated.  September 25, 2005, impotent and suffering from Parkinson’s disease,

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Patient Prayer

When patients ask for prayer, we pray this together: Thank you almighty LORD for Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and your grace because it is by grace that we have

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Parenting Is a Crap Shoot

When I asked my forty-something friend how his life was going, he replied, “These two teenagers are giving Judy and me fits.” I countered with a nod, “Parenting is a

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Pastor Tim and FOMO

I love Pastor Tim. Wait a minute. Love is not the right word. I overuse that word as in I love the Texas Aggies; I love Blue Bell Ice Cream;

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Brain Function and God

The brain is the biological structure inside the skull that includes neurons, neurotransmitters and electrical connections to brain systems. The brain also produces electrical and hormonal connections to the sensory

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God and Physics

God and physics discusses how paradox, general and special relativity, quantum mechanics and chaos theory may be connected to the mystery and majesty of God. I could be bounded in

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