{"id":122660,"date":"2023-12-02T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=122660"},"modified":"2023-12-02T10:42:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T15:42:45","slug":"doctor-curmudgeon-gone-but-not-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=122660","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae Gone But Not Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=122660\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=122660\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-122661 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/download-5-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/download-5-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/download-5.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time in 1953, a wonderful author by the name of Ray Bradbury published a book. Its title was Fahrenheit 451. This superbly written novel took place in a dystopian society where books were outlawed. \u201cFiremen\u201d sought them out and burned them. In his novel, the author conceived of Fahrenheit 451 as \u201cthe temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His book came to my mind as I thought about the burning of the Library of Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p>About eighteen centuries ago\u2026even before the internet; there existed a great storehouse of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>It was Ptolemy II who conceived of an immense center of learning. He thought of a place where scholars could study and meet together. And so, he built the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Between forty thousand to four hundred thousand scrolls were said to have found a home in Ptolemy\u2019s library.<\/p>\n<p>Myth or truth, the Library of Alexandria has come down through the centuries as a place where educators and scholars worked together simply to further knowledge and discourse.<\/p>\n<p>And then as the story, or history or legend goes, along came Julius Caesar.<\/p>\n<p>He was at war with his rival, Pompey. Caesar found himself in a difficult situation at the port of Alexandria. He was surrounded on the land and in the sea around the city.<\/p>\n<p>So what else could Caesar do? He set fire to the fleet in the harbor. Of course it spread into the city and\u2026burned down the great library of Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p>From the Greek Reporter, \u201cAccording to Plutarch, a Greek historian from the first Century CE: \u2018Caesar was forced to repel the danger by using fire, which spread from the dockyards and destroyed the Great Library.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course controversy abounds about this center of learning.<\/p>\n<p>Was the famous Library of Alexandria just a myth?<\/p>\n<p>Was there really one great center?<\/p>\n<p>Were there several libraries spread out through the city?<\/p>\n<p>It is known that the city of Alexandria was burned accidentally and Caesar himself wrote the account of this.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been written that warehouses near the port containing scrolls had been annihilated in the conflagration.<\/p>\n<p>I can never forget Ray Bradbury\u2019s Fahrenheit 451\u2026.the destruction of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Myth or truth, I cannot forget the stories of the great Library of Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p>And today, in Alexandria, there stands a new library of Alexandria. This center of learning has been dedicated to the kind of scholarship and community that the first Library of Alexandria was known for.<\/p>\n<p>ZD Net describes this new center: The New Library of Alexandria, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, is therefore dedicated to &#8220;recapturing the spirit of openness and scholarship&#8221; of the original library, containing a general library &#8211; which can hold up to a million books &#8211; and six specialized libraries. Bibliotheca Alexandrina is also home to four museums, a copy of the Internet Archive, thirteen academic research centres and more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Jacques Derrida wrote in Archive Fever, \u201cThere is no political power without power over the archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Curmudgeon suggests &#8220;Bitter Medicine\u201d, Dr. Eugene Eisman&#8217;s story of his experiences&#8211;from the humorous to the intense&#8212;as a young army doctor serving in the Vietnam War.<br \/>\nBitter Medicine by Eugene H. Eisman, M.D. &#8211;on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitter-Medicine-Doctors-Year-Vietnam\/dp\/0615874347\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae is Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D., a physician-satirist. This column originally appeared on SERMO, the leading global social network for doctors.<\/p>\n<p>SERMO<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sermo.com\"> www.sermo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist Once upon a time in 1953, a wonderful author by the name of Ray Bradbury published a book. Its title was Fahrenheit 451. 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