By Siddhartha Mukherjee. An oncologist by training, Doctor Mukherjee studied at some of America's oldest educational institutions and continues to lecture at some others. His book titled the same as this blog, won the 2011 Pulitzer for nonfiction. While a longish and largely technical read, it was a chance encounter with a parent during a college visit that prompted me to check it out. I am glad I read it. It is in the author's words a 'biography of cancer'. Second leading cause of death in America after heart disease, this is a fate worse than death itself. Most of us know someone or a degree removed who either is battling this horrible disease or has succumbed to it. Cancer has the uncanny ability to be humiliating, demeaning, strip one of their humanity and a fate worse than a life sentence. As a trained medical doctor, Mukherjee has attempted to be the detective looking for clues about cancer and a historian all in in ...
Among human crayons I am Brown. Also, my thoughts bounce around and resemble the idea of Brownian motion. This blog is an interface for the reader into this unique jello I call my mind. A mind so fertile anything grows. An agnostic yet curious mind. A mind attempting the Horatian or Kabirism maxim of Carpe Diem or Aaj kareso aab. Rated W I L D for wilfully irritating to large demographic is sometimes the latter - graphic in its descriptions. Caveat Lector!