"A Leak in the Basement" is a distinctive collection of amazing personal experiences, set during a unique medical career and lifetime. Although some of these stories are humorous, this is not meant to be a funny book, but rather a broad view inspection, revealing the odd quirks of everyday life.
The well beaten cliche of "Non-fiction is stranger than fiction," is proven to be true as these lifetime events would quickly be classified as implausible, if this book were to be designated as fiction. Over the last thirty years practicing medicine, the unusual moments taken place in my life, have been presented at parties and discussed at medical meetings, drawing the same astonishing reactions; "I can't believe that happened! The Santa caused what? This can't be real! Tell me another one, you should write them all down. This could not have happened!"
Whether it be an odd part part in a high school play, or a French teacher that made your freshman year in college unbearable, a visit to the local emergency room or a sleazy car repair shop, everybody has experienced an event in their life that should not have occurred to them under ordinary circumstances. If you have been employed in the medical field, given birth or found yourself lost at four o'clock in the morning wondering how your coherent plan of not more than six hours ago went awry, you can easily relate to various parts of this book. Everyone, conscious of it or not, is a player capable of writing a book on their own of individual mishaps as well as lifetime successes. Everyone has seen a rainbow. Everyone, at one time or another, has faced the unexpected "Leak in the Basement."
