Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anything Volume 2

About the Book

I am not a writer or an author of novels or essays. It always discourages me to see so many authors or writers, some established, others just attempting to make a name for themselves every time I enter a bookstore and see thousands and thousands of titles of novels or books or whatever the writer thinks it is worth writing about. Some are new editions, others neatly arranged in that heap called bargain purchases. It immediately put a stop to my idea of putting what I think is a subject that must be indelible, of everyday events that people talk about after seeing it on TV or coming across it on a page of a local or national newspaper. Something like Charles Krauthammer’s seminal essays in Things That Matter, Andy Rooney’s astute observations in Common Sense, or the provocative articles in humorist Dave Barry’s I Am Not Making This Up. But growing older in age and with the remaining future not so distant anymore, the impulse and the courage to tell anyone who is interested in what you have to say becomes compulsive as magma wanting to erupt from the bowels of the earth’s core. That is why these essays compiled and culled from the files of what I have kept these years writing editorials in magazines, from applications to a graduate school I never finished and received a diploma, and from other sources the names I can’t recall, from recent and contemporaneous events onerously repeated by pundits and so-called experts, became bound in a form you are holding today. The ideas may be past but still relevant. They might be current and dissecting them with the pros and cons of opinions providing the diversity we strive for. I do not claim originality in the subjects I write about. They might not be original, but I have burnished them with a different patina the reader never thought of colorizing. The research of some of the data was done via websites, different articles read, speeches made, my notes and recollections, and some older versions of articles I have written in some newsmagazines. For privacy reasons, I have changed the names in one essay in particular, as I was not successful in communicating with the persons despite attempts at doing so. I have also, to the best of my ability, adhered to the fair use doctrine using some data or quotations in some of my essays. In any case, I hope it is while your time, effort, and your trip to the bookstore to come up and peruse what is in your hands.

About the Author

Edward Quiros is a general surgeon with subspecialty in hand and upper extremity. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Santo Tomas in 1970, after earning two undergraduate degrees ,spent his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the United Air Force Hospital at Clark during the Vietnam War, 1969-71. He migrated to the United States in 1971, did his surgical training at Elmhurst Hospital/Mount Sinai and his surgical residency at New York Medical College hospitals as well as his Fellowship in Hand and Upper extremity. He took his Master of Business Administration at the University of South Florida graduating in 2000 and had two years of law school before he gave up going back to college. He practiced his specialty for thirty-eight years in the Panhandle of Texas before he retired and moved to Nevada where he and his wife Corazon, an Obstetrician-Gynecologist presently resides. He is the oldest of thirteen children, father of two, Roderick, and oncology surgeon in Pennsylvania, and Christine, a financial analyst in Manhattan, New York. His daughter-in-law Emily, is a pediatric anesthesiologist in Philadelphia and a mother of his three grandchildren, Olivia, Noemi and Isabelle. His eldest granddaughter Olivia is now a freshman at Fordham U while Noemi is a senior at St. Michael High. Isabelle has long limbs and is almost as tall as her dad. Doctor Quiros and his wife while retired are still active in their professions and are involved for many years now in the yearly surgical missions to the Philippines sponsored by the Surgical Society of Philippine Surgeons in America. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Internal College of Surgeons, American Society of Abdominal Surgeons, Managed Care Medicine and a host of other professional societies. (For additional information on the author, please contact xlibris.com)