Carl Douglass
- Neurosurgeon Turned Author Writes With Gripping Realism
- Author Masterminds Charter Member
Articles & Book Chapters
DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM
Evangelicals and Politics Today Historically, Americans have been skittish about mixing religion, politics, and government; and part of the connection to the old monarchial regime …
DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM
The great divide in the United States; is it a harbinger for the future of democracy? The United States has long been identified …
DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM
PART IV Lessons from the past, and harbingers for the future of democracy In Poland and Hungary, the aptly dubbed “illiberal democracies” have taken hold, …
DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM
PART III. From revolutions around the world to republican democracy in the United States The establishment of universal male suffrage in France in 1848 …
DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM
PART II: The slow and inconsistent rise of democracy in the West The early connecting themes in eighteenth-century political discourse were commerce and morality—not …
DEMOCRACY LOST, DICTATORSHIP TAKES ITS PLACE, AND SO, AD INFINITUM
Historically, democracies have had a struggle to persist, and most of them eventually failed. I will begin my dissertation with a few important examples including …
HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
How to speak British, Course 101: British English is considerably more complex and difficult than many writers would think. It has differed over eras …
The Doctor’s Primal Fear To Err Is Homicide
Part V. The Case of British surgeon (Mr.) David Sellu The case of David Sellu–a Black surgeon–has bearing on the issue of the doctor’s primal …
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Heist, the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft
PART II Investigation and hunt for the art thieves: In addition to official FBI and other law enforcement investigators into the Gardner Art Heist, …
THINGS FOR WHICH I RENDER THANKSGIVING
I am pushing eighty-five; I have two kinds of cancer; I am undergoing chemotherapy; so, I feel generally quite crappy most of the time. I …
The Doctor’s Primal Fear To Err Is Homicide
Part IV. The Case of Dr. Hadiza Bawa-Garba Dr. Bawa-Garba likely admonished herself for not thinking about sepsis instantly, for not insisting that the chest …
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Heist, the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft
A few late night Boston St. Patrick’s Day revelers exited an apartment building having a raucous time. They happened to see two policemen sitting in …
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.