Dear Doctor Elephant,
Why haven’t you updated your blog in such a long time?
Concerned in Mankato, MN
Dear Concerned,
Much obliged for your interest! Truth is, for the first part of the year we had a pretty bad flu epidemic in my town, and I was working flat-out. Then when the flu cleared up, people were eating whole ceilings or breaking their legs on spinning wheels or getting their heads bitten off by monsters, and I had both front legs and my trunk full keeping up with it all. Meanwhile, my dear wife (she’s a brain surgeon) was working very hard in her hospital, and finally we decided that we had to take a break at the end of June (it was hard work persuading her.) So I got a locum, and we took the calves upstate and went fishing and hiking, and read good books and did lots of nothing. And now I’m back and I feel right refreshed.
Dear Doctor Elephant,
What do you think about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act?
Fuming in Woodburn, IN
Dear Fuming,
As a medical elephant, I’m glad that more people with illnesses or injuries or chronic conditions will be able to get them taken care of without going bankrupt. If you want to talk about constitutionality, you might want to consult my wife’s brother, Constitutional Lawyer Elephant- lately I ain’t been able to, since every time he calls round I seem to get an urgent call to go out.
Dear Doctor Elephant,
Who’s your favorite ethnomusicologist?
Curious in Cambridge, MA
Dear Curious,
Ask Doctor Elephant! 