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The Stanford Super Residency
Trained Killers Plastic surgery at Stanford has had several weekend retreats and has concluded that the light directing our paths undeniably indicates that the P.S. training program should have one...
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Pancho’s Story
I’ll tell you the story of Pancho, my friend who was faithful and strong and achieved a good end. His last name was Martinez and he hailed from Jalisco, Mexico. He had never caught good break until he...
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1. Eugenio Lara: Bag on the Head
On our first trip (of 159) RAC and I went to Mexicali when Phil Collins had gathered a few people who might benefit from our services. Our first clinic was held in Colonia Pro Hogar where there were no...
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Mobile Surgery: Part II
Innovation Los barcos son segur os en los puertos, pero no son hechos que dar allí. Ships are safe in the harbors, but they are not meant to be there. [1] Doctors are comfortable and safe at Stanford,...
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My First Transsexual Sued Me
At Stanford, it is obvious that you should, or must, excel. After all, Nobel Laureates eat lunch right across the table from you – the common faculty person. Wow. You look up to these people. That guy...
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The Wolf Dream: The Most Complex, Most Important, and Requiring the Most...
In 2002, I was lying face-up supine in the hospital bed in Rome 1068 in U.C. Hospital, San Francisco, with my head scrambled recovering from intravascular CNS lymphoma, and particularly from the third...
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Lesotho Story: Semen for the Americas
LOBBY BAR, HOTEL AMBASSADOR HOUSTON, TX, CA. 1973 “Semen for the Americas is the world’s best project.” These words were heard from the President of the Semen for the Americas foundation, whose purpose...
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The Grand Coincidence of Mexicali, or Was It?
The magic of Mexicali – why one of the most inhospitable climates in the hemisphere and almost in the entire world would be the site for truly fantastic patient care, teaching by role model, and...
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The Glory Years: Part Two
The Project of International Humanitarian Surgery came to pass into existence as a result of a confluence of events which inspired the participants to engage with patients and communities outside of...
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Perfection is the Enemy of Good
Anita Fajardo was always a favorite patient of mine. In body image, perfectionism may be a negative factor. Anita Fajardo was a perfectionist, but perfection is the enemy of good. She was sexy and...
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My First Transexual Sued Me
At Stanford, it is obvious that you should, or must, excel. After all, Nobel Laureates eat lunch right across the table from you – the common faculty person. Wow. You look up to these people. That guy...
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Circumcision of a Father of Five
Circumcision of a Father of Five: Hard, hard, hard work plus naiveté does not make you perfectly suited to perform this operation. In addition to the fact that we were operating on an area of the human...
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Lecture to American College of Surgeons – Humanitarian of the Year Award – 2013
A 3,500 Word Synopsis of the Theory and Practice of International Humanitarian Surgery -- Thank you to the great field of surgery – a beautiful, wonderful and happy field to which to devote one’s life....
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“Only” An Oral Surgeon- Doctor Oscar Asensio
He devised quite cleverly, and with a great amount of planning and thinking about the principles derived from the embryology of cleft lip, the muscle misplacement in cleft—his own technique for cleft...
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Politics Can Be Your Friend, Doctor Part II
Let me talk first about the person - a new friend, albeit in a straight business milieu in this exact situation, whom you form a bond with, not between two persons but among many persons present, which...
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San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the kidnap and violence capital of the world. What in the hell do you want to do in Honduras, DON? It’s dangerous, you don’t know the culture you don’t know the language, your...
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Re-Entering the Box: Surgery, Society, and Recovery
We saw the patient again on three occasions -6 weeks and 6months and 6 years after surgery. Of course we memorialized with photography. We found out that after a three-year interval she had...
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My Subconscious Wins: Interesting Cases Are More Important Than $$$
As alluded to above, my professional career at Stanford University School of immersed me in an area of patient care and clinical experiences of high value...Gender Dysphoria Syndrome.
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Normal for the First Time
"Thank you. This is the first time anybody has ever called me normal, Doctor."
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