KevinMD June 11, 2024
In one of my favorite movies, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the original crew of the Enterprise has traveled through time, back to the, to them ancient, city of San Francisco circa the 1980s. It’s all about Earth whales and alien cetaceans being none too pleased that we killed them all … And Klingons, of course. There must be Klingons. But what stuck in my young mind at the time was what Dr. McCoy did when walking through a hospital. He encountered an old lady in a wheelchair on her way to dialysis. The use of this “medieval” treatment, as he considered it, was intolerable to him, and he gave her a pill that helped her grow a new...