Doc's Thoughts

In the 1960s in a small village in France, there was a group of teenage boys who would run around the town together. They would

I often say that we are all instant-gratification pleasure-seeking pain-avoiding monkeys. Our nervous systems have evolved to seek pleasure and to avoid pain. In the

There was once a traveler who came upon a large construction site, filled with stone masons. Everywhere he looked, he saw people laboring away. The

I recently finished a great biography of Benjamin Franklin– he was a remarkable man, with a fantastic optimism in America. He embodied (and was one

When I talk to patients about making changes, people will often tell me things are still the same because “I’m lazy.” While there are certainly