Short, Short Stories and Random Thoughts

About the Book

Things happen to people. Some of the happenings make interesting stories and they, in turn, make you who you are. The events described in the little book Short, Short Stories and Random Thoughts happened to Dr. Vance Connelly, the pen name for the author.

Some of the stories are funny, some are sad, and some are simply declarations.

All lives are made up of stories. Each individual should see and feel them and tell others about them.

The little book of short stories enables the rushed and busy reader to dip into it – read a little – pause – laugh or cry – then put it down until there is enough time to pick it up again.

About the Author

J. Willis Hurst, M.D. was a trainee in cardiology with Dr. Paul White, the father of American Academic Cardiology, at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Hurst taught and practiced cardiology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, for fifty eight years. He was professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine for thirty years. He was President Lyndon B. Johnson’s cardiologist for eighteen years. Dr. Hurst is known internationally as a skilled teacher and writer. He has published numerous medical books and articles. His book, The Heart, now known as Hurst’s The Heart, was translated into five languages. He has also written books on teaching, a children’s book with his grandson, two novels with his son, and two novels alone: The Last Leaf Has Fallen about the downfall of a young doctor, and Short, Short Stories and Random Thoughts. Although Hurst officially retired on January 1, 2009, Emory interns and residents meet with him the first Tuesday of each month for dinner and a teaching session.