After I finished training at Duke and served my two years in the Navy, I was recruited by several universities to join their staff. Indiana came up with the best offer. Become an assistant professor of medicine at full salary, but study for a year any place I wanted....
Some forty years after my experiences with Dr. Kempner, Duke awarded me the Distinguished Alumnus Award. However, there was no way to predict such an outcome at the beginning of my training or what I would owe Duke for that training. In fact, my acceptance speech when...
Three years later, in my last year of training as a cardiologist, I was writing my first chapter on heart rhythm disorders for a major textbook. I desperately wanted to attend a conference at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago on interpretation of complex...
How many of you have done that? Gone against the boss, the supervisor, or even just the advice of your best friend? Being a physician, especially a cardiologist, can involve life and death decisions. Making those decisions as a first year intern often leads to white...
I was an intern at Duke University Medical Center in 1964, and was assigned a month with Walter Kempner. Dr. Kempner emigrated from Nazi Germany in 1934 and came to Duke Hospital as a medical scientist. Slim, medium height with dark hair, he was a handsome,...
Having published hundreds of medical papers and books, Doug Zipes has turned his hand to writing fiction. The Black Widows was published in 2011, Ripples in Opperman’s Pond in 2013 and Not Just a Game hit the shelves in early 2016. In 2018 Doug also published his memoir, Damn The Naysayers and 2019 saw Bear’s Promise, Doug’s latest novel hit the shelves.
