John Gamel
John Gamel is Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, where he still practices and teaches. He is the author of numerous book chapters and articles in scientific journals, and his recent essays based on his decades of medical training and practice have appeared in The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review and Epoch.
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A Plague of Spots
Since birth, I have endured the Scotch-Irish curse of spots. By this I mean freckles, freckles everywhere—face, chest, back, arms and legs. At a swimming pool in Atlanta, during my high school years, a Yankee gaped at the quarter-sized freckles …