The last elective I did as a medical student was an away rotation with the infectious disease division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was the mid-1990s during the AIDS epidemic. The medications that turned what was a rapid death sentence into a chronic disease were not yet available. Watching someone in one’s..Read More »
…”Hosptial’s aren’t restaurants”… http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20151206/OPINION/312069996/keeping-up-with-the-vanderbilts
Many of you may recognize the man in the picture as anti-crime activist Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels and media personality. Known back in the 1980s as the “Rock,” Sliwa, and his band of volunteers patrolled the streets and subways protecting regular citizens from the criminal harm that was much more common in..Read More »
Oh, Gotham- how misunderstood you are. Your industry taken for rudeness. Your cultivated respect of personal space taken as lack of concern. How can someone who thrives, or even just survives, maneuvering through crowds everyday not have practiced social skills? Being a Gothamite is not for everyone. A-game is required. It’s not for the feint..Read More »
“Physician, heal theyself.” When I served on the disciplinary board for the health professions for the state of New York (i.e. medical jury duty) not uncommonly the issue that came up that had someone’s license on the line was a question of the person’s own health–mental and physical–not uncommonly addiction problems–and its impact on their..Read More »
If a society is looking to have an excellent healthcare workforce, advanced planning is required. Medical training is a several year commitment. It is a pipeline. Even before one enters medical, nursing or physician assistant school, one has to acquire knowledge and a background in science. Its not good enough to just have good medical..Read More »
M.O.R.E. (Medhen Orphan Relief Effort) is a New Jersey-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing home-based/community based, as opposed to institutional, care to orphans in a community in Ethiopia. I first heard about M.O.R.E from a colleague, Dr. Asqual Getaneh, a renowned, Ethiopia-born internist and international health expert, who is on the board. M.O.R.E. comes up..Read More »
Telemedicine in Dermatology interview on Intrepid Now
What’s not to love about people who, like fire fighters, rush to areas of conflict to help, while others are running away? Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontieres) is a French organization founded in 1971 in response to the denial of access to medical assistance by other major charitable organizations during the Biafrian war in..Read More »
Happy December! As we have recently completed November, the month of gratitude, a quote I recently heard comes to mind: After thanking comes giving. As I was browsing a recent issue of Glamour magazine, I came across a project that has inspired a giving project from my practice. Glamour was promoting a month of making..Read More »
