Carl Douglass
- Neurosurgeon Turned Author Writes With Gripping Realism
- Author Masterminds Charter Member
Articles & Book Chapters
HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
PART XIII How to speak British beyond England (continued), course 304: Jamaican English: English is the official language of Jamaica, but–nevertheless–the majority of the population …
Medical School in the Depression—to hell and back
“Karl worked harder than any man should during those grinding years. He came to look like skin and bones, but he was the most courageous …
HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
Barbadian English/Barbadian Creole/Bajan The language spoken in the Caribbean Island of Barbados is strongly influenced by other Caribbean English dialects. Bajan or Barbadian Creole is …
The Great Depression in the slums of Chicago, and starting Medical School
“With little more than our hopes and a flimsy strategy, we (Karl, daughter Carroll Lee, age 3, and I) loaded up what little we had …
HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
PART XII How to speak British beyond England (continued), course 302 West Indian and the Bahamas dialects: Bahamian English English is the official language of the Bahamas, but the …
School on a shoestring, a hope, a prayer, and a boarding house.
“Our second daughter was born shortly before Karl got accepted into pre-medicine at the University of Utah, which was then only a two-year school. It …
HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
PART XI How to speak British beyond England, course 301 For the sake of completeness and for brevity, we will give a short summary of …
A unique honeymoon, and the start of the Great Depression
“We had to go to Salt Lake City to get married which was a long ways from the mining camp and Spanish Fork. Karl had …
HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
Singapore English/Singlish: Singapore is a multilingual nation. The Singapore government recognizes four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, and Tamil. Students in primary and secondary schools learning English as the language …
My Mother was a Character
This somewhat embellished short story is based on verbal recordings taken when my mother was 90 and did not have long to live. “I was …
HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
Malaysian English/Manglish: Malay is the lingua franca of Malaysia, a federation of former British colonies and similar dependencies. Manglish is a beautiful mix of Malaysian and English–a hilarious …
HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
How to speak British, course 206 Hong Kong English: The accent of English spoken in Hong Kong follows mainly British, with rather strong influence from Cantonese on the pronunciations of a …
All In Jest – Chapter 13
All In Jest CHAPTER THIRTEEN Sybil was nervous and cranky the morning of the deposition. She ran her preparations over and over again through her …
All In Jest – Chapter 12
All In Jest CHAPTER TWELVE There were seven continuances, in all, for the van der Hoef case, stretching over nearly as many years, before the …
All In Jest – Chapter 11
All In Jest CHAPTER ELEVEN Things were going too well, it seemed to her. Dr. Norcroft was now established officially as the region’s certified skull …
All In Jest – Chapter 10
All In Jest CHAPTER TEN Once again at home, Sybil took stock of her situation. She was overreacting to the outcome of the Evangelina …
All In Jest – Chapter 9
All In Jest CHAPTER NINE The war of attrition launched by Paul Bel Geddes started insidiously. Sybil’s deposition in the van der Hoef case …
All In Jest – Chapter 8
All In Jest CHAPTER EIGHT Gerrit van der Hoef’s grandfather had worked in the Westminister County boat yards making tug boats. Gerrit’s father had worked …
All In Jest – Chapter 7
All In Jest CHAPTER SEVEN 2013 was a good year for Sybil Norcroft, M.D., PhD, F.A.C.S. George and Dolly’s four-year-old filly, Moccasin Walker, sold for …
All In Jest – Chapter 6
All In Jest CHAPTER SIX Blackman Schwartz met Sybil in the hospital cafeteria a week after the verdict in the Brendan McNeely case was delivered. …
All In Jest – Chapter 5
All In Jest CHAPTER FIVE Pancho had become the de facto foreman of Sybil’s ranch, in part because he was the eldest and most experienced …
All In Jest – Chapter 4
All In Jest CHAPTER FOUR After the deposition, Sybil felt depressed. Her attorney, her friends, and her family all reassured her, told her not to …
All In Jest – Chapter 3
All In Jest Chapter Three As soon as Sybil put down the receiver after her conversation with the aide at the medical examiner’s office, she …
All In Jest – Chapter 2
All In Jest Chapter Two The courtroom was stuffy–hot and full of the smell of tension. Sybil Norcroft felt the worst she could remember, second …
I chose to use a pseudonym for personal reasons. I’m a retired neurosurgeon living in a rural paradise and am at rest from the turbulent life of my profession. I lived in an era when resident trainees worked 120 hours a week–a form of bondage no longer permitted by law. I served as a Navy Seabee general surgeon during the unpleasantness in Viet Nam, and spent the remainder of my ten-year service as a neurosurgeon in a major naval regional medical center. I’ve lived in every section of the country, saw all the inhumanity of man to man, practiced in private settings large and small, the military, academia, and as a medical humanitarian in the Third World.