INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION: Psychologists have long proposed that the reason we love comic book superheroes is because we all secretly desire to be the heroes of our own lives.

ELDER NEGLECT: Several years ago, a palliative nurse in Australia wrote a book detailing the top five regrets of individuals on their deathbed.

DRUNK DRIVING: Many beloved fairy tales were morbidly gruesome in their original connotation.

AGING GRACEFULLY: The opportunity to age gracefully is something that I suspect all human beings long for.

HEART & BRAIN DISEASE: Known to his closest friends as Smiley, my patient was born in 1949 in Nassau and grew up in abject poverty.

THE RIGHT DOSE: Before the internet became mainstream, my father owned a set of medical encyclopedias.

ACHILLES INJURY: Tim spent summers with his grandparents on the island of Andros during some of the happiest times of his life.

STRESS: Today, I introduce you to a patient, hereafter referred to as Tommy, who survived a near-fatal cardiac emergency when, in his early 40s, the aorta in his heart suddenly burst.

HOMELESS: A Warbler in a prairie on face value appears wildly indecorous and almost as unique, to those unaware, as seeing a homeless person in paradise.

BUSH MEDICINE: Growing up on a remote family island with limited access to traditional western medicine led many indigenous Bahamians to find alternative natural cures for their medical ailments.

SHARK ATTACK: There are certain, remote, sections of The Bahamas that are so serene and untouched that the sheer beauty of this sun-kissed landscape is utterly breathtaking.

SCHOOL VIOLENCE: At any given moment, our lives can change forever. Just the notion of how split-second fast it can happen is frightening.

CRPS is a severe neuropathic pain that typically ensues following injury at a specific site.

WORK INJURY: At 6,500 feet, while flying a single engine plane from Nassau to Florida, my patient’s engine failed.

ESOPHAGEAL ATRESIA: The last speech ever delivered by civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took place on April 3, 1968 and was entitled ‘I’ve been to the mountaintop’.

Inspiration that led to a calling: The journey of Dr. Kenneth D. Kemp written by Felicity Darville, The Tribune newspaper.

HEARTACHE2: There are certain definitive sink or swim moments throughout our lives that define each and every one of us.

HEARTACHE: Many of us spend so much of our lives consumed by what’s happened in the past that we fail to live in the present.

FACE FRACTURES & CONCUSSION: There’s something uniquely American about baseball.

NO REGRET: At 1am my patient receives a phone call from the police. There’s been another car accident.