Everyone has a Mission Statement these days – and really intense organizations  have a Vision Statement and if you’re really O.T.T. you have a Philosophy Statement.

They’re usually unctuous and odious and unbearably P.C. But, lest you, you hapless reader, have stumbled across this web site by accident. Or even if by intent, but are still wondering “what the hell . . . . . .?” here is my “Mission Statement”.

I am a Family Physician. I spend my life on a frenetic treadmill, churning patients through my office – like most others in this day and age. But, though the journey is fraught, there is the odd nanosecond to get caught up in the pathos or the humor. And for some pathological reason I have this desire to record it all and write it down for somebody to read.

I used to write ‘Dr Gagg’s Diary’ for a local tabloid till it got banned from the local health corporations hospital and other sites. I still write a monthly column for the local newspaper, but editors are a conservative, jumpy, timorous bunch – beholden to the contributions of their advertisers. So god forbid you should try to write anything bawdy or salacious or non-P.C.

The solution seems to be to have my own website, and write what I want. No editor. No red pen. No editorial policy. These appeal to my sense of iconoclasm – the down side is that whatever I say or put in is entirely at the mercy of my own bad judgment.

On a practical note, I have divided my posts up according to whom I think they’re appropriate to. If it’s directed to doctors it will say “posted to Doctors corner”. If it’s for the general rabble, it will be posted in “Joe Publics Corner”. If it’s a jibe at the pharmaceutical industry – try “Drug Rep’s corner” etc.

In the hope that all this crap I write will perhaps amuse or inform or provoke, I soldier on with my self-important Mission. Tally ho.

Dr Gagg