by design | Jun 17, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson No, my title is not a typo, nor am I referring to Google, the internet search engine, or a gargoyle. These days we are bombarded with information and often by staggering numbers. I remember when a millionaire was someone like Thurston Howell III...
by design | Jun 10, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson A patient recently asked me how long I had been writing for The Focus. I couldn’t remember. However, I quickly divided two hundred and seventy essays by fifty-two weeks in a year and came up with five years of stories. I’ve wondered if my muse...
by design | Jun 3, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Ethnicity has little to do with rhythm because my grandson Noah has it. We don’t know where he got it because my son-in-law doesn’t dance. Perhaps it’s some recessive or ancestral gene that courses through Noah’s blood and allows him to move like...
by design | May 28, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson “If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking.” General George Patton One wonders if the General wasn’t prophetic. Apparently, the Major News Media, Attorney General Eric Holder, Hilary Clinton and President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry...
by design | May 20, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Recently, I heard several of my friends say they were going on a News diet. I admit I’ve felt similarly and left the fight periodically for R&R. I find myself cycling between the resignation of living in a conquered land and the stewardship of...
by design | May 13, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson From time to time patients ask me if I do surgery. Of course, what they mean is do I perform minor surgical procedures, since it is obvious I’m no surgeon. I tell them, yes, I can biopsy spots on the skin, lance boils and sew up lacerations. In...
