Bruce Campbell MD

A short story set in the aftermath of a summer windstorm.

A writer-friend tracks Dr. Campbell down at a national meeting and asks him to autograph a copy of his book. What happens next is a surprise.

When I was an intern, I was performing a tonsillectomy closely supervised by an older surgeon. While we were working, he told me this story he had heard from one of his own mentors. My teacher swore it was true.