by Dr. Bill Maynard | Jun 16, 2022 | Writings
LITTLE ERRORS, BIG PROBLEMS Kellen, a 27 year old software developer, ordinarily has radiant, brown skin. It is disturbing to see him looking so pale. There is an especially sickly pallor to his lips and fingernails, which are ash-blue, rather than pink. To add to...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Apr 24, 2022 | Writings
GLORY AND BEAUTY All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. – Gerard Manley Hopkins A WORLD RE-VISUALIZED...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Mar 8, 2022 | Writings
MISSING THE POINT As I studied the object placed in my hand by my new patient, Alice Thorner, realization dawned on me. Alice’s husband, Bobby, had been trying to tell me about her problems, but his words were ineffective. I had failed to grasp their significance. ...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Feb 19, 2022 | Writings
CLAMORING FOR ATTENTION For the first week that I knew Alice Thorner I hardly laid eyes on her face. That’s because it was always buried in her hands. Alice was a new patient, a 62 year old homemaker with silver hair and an average build. I believe her eyes were...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Jan 16, 2022 | Writings
Written for Martin Luther King Day Today I am republishing something I wrote in 2021. A Dim Image Four years ago Bennett Jones, a hardcore narcotic addict, was paralyzed in an auto accident while driving intoxicated. The other driver, a young mother, was killed. The...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Jan 7, 2022 | Writings
OF BODIES, BLOOD, AND BOOKS Karen had managed to stay sober for several years, but a recent relapse of binge drinking had pushed her liver over the edge. Under the renewed onslaught of rum, the normally spongy organ had hardened like a stone. Ordinarily, blood from...
