This is a memoir of a professional life with occasional paragraphs of family life added. Occasionally there are anecdotes that make co-workers come to life as well. Because I was interested in the medical stuff that was okay with me.

There were pandemics I had forgotten about, had never known about, and knew but learned more about. For example I learned how much work on HIV/AIDS had been going on before ACTUP made it a more public thing. The complex relationship among activists and Fauci was interesting and again, more than I had been aware of. I remembered zika and ebola, but only vaguely. And of course SARS-2-COVID. The others were new, partly because they occurred at a time I wasn't taking time for news and partly because they were more quickly contained.