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Ken Haller

One Week

I write this on Friday, December 27, 2024, one week — seven days — since Malcolm departed. Has it been a whole week/only a week?

Dec 30, 2024

One Week

Dec 30, 2024

Malcolm Comes to Flora Place

“Give me a quiet night, a stack of books, a tuna melt on rye,

Dec 28, 2024

Malcolm Comes to Flora Place

Dec 28, 2024

The People on the Plane: What Doctors and Democrats Get Wrong and How We Can Fix It

Have you ever seen the movie “2012”? It is a really goofy apocalyptic spectacle from epic disaster director Roland Emmerich about a…

Nov 18, 2024

The People on the Plane: What Doctors and Democrats Get Wrong and How We Can Fix It

Nov 18, 2024

The Day I Got Fired

I came to Saint Louis in 1986 after having spent a couple of years in Loris, a small town in South Carolina, fulfilling a National Health…

Jan 16, 2023

Jan 16, 2023

Shadows and Light: A Story for World AIDS Day

In the summer of 1981 I was just beginning my pediatrics residency at Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. I had done a…

Dec 1, 2022

Shadows and Light: A Story for World AIDS Day

Dec 1, 2022

How do YOU pronounce Daenerys Targaryen?

I saw a meme on Facebook recently that said something along the lines of, “If you can pronounce Daenerys Targaryen, you can pronounce…

May 29, 2022

May 29, 2022

That Cool Ride

The sudden death by shooting of a neighbor a block away from me a few nights ago has certainly got me to thinking. I didn’t know this man…

May 24, 2022

That Cool Ride

May 24, 2022

Pediatrician, Heal Thyself

A lifetime ago, my friend, Joel Hershey, had an extra ticket to the Rep. Joel and his partner had season tickets, but his partner (whose…

Apr 13, 2022

Pediatrician, Heal Thyself

Apr 13, 2022

Dance Party!!!

“Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.” - Mark…

Jan 11, 2022

Dance Party!!!

Jan 11, 2022

Becoming George Bailey: My Complex, Evolving Relationship with “It’s a Wonderful Life”

I had dreams, like every kid has dreams. I dreamed I would travel the world, become an astronomer, maybe even become an astronaut, and go…

Dec 25, 2021

Becoming George Bailey: My Complex, Evolving Relationship with “It’s a Wonderful Life”

Dec 25, 2021

Ken Haller

Ken Haller

Pediatrician, Educator, Singer, Writer, Advocate, Actor, Improviser. Views are my own, not those of any institution where I’m employed.

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