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IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “My two assets my pen and my voice – and it had to be the esophagus.” – Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011), Anglo-American writer and journalist, Mortality (2012) There are at least four alcoholic writers, (Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Alan Watts) that I admire....

IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “Whole nations annihilated… the vast cities of America, the fertile plains of Hindostan, the crowded abodes of the Chinese, are menaced with utter ruin.”— Mary Shelley (1797-1851), English novelist, The Last Man (1826) Mary Shelley, best known for the Gothic novel...

IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST “What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d!” – William Cowper (1731-1800), English poet and hymnodist, Walking with God (c.1779) Here’s a conundrum: here you are WFH (working from home) and yet – you’re stressed (!). It comes as an irony that William Cowper suffered a...

IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST DR. JOSE PUJALTE JR. “Here I and sorrows sit.” – William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright  King John , Act. iii, Scene 1 (1623) Not that we have obliterated smoking as a health hazard – society continues to a pay a price for a smoking public in...