Diet books don\’t often include approbations from rabbis, but they\’re appropriate for \”The Life-Transforming Diet,\” a structured eating plan based on the writings of physician and Torah scholar Maimonides.
I have learned that finding peace is more important than being right, but that I can\’t make peace with someone who doesn\’t see me, nor they with me if I don\’t see them.
During a procedure, surgeons can use a touch-screen panel or voice commands to display and control images, adjust room lighting, or phone a colleague. They can access patient histories, X-rays and lab results, and use their fingers on the console to draw — just like a football commentator — on images displayed on a screen.
\”Africa isn\’t something far awayand distant anymore. It\’s something very personal, and it\’s somethingthat you can\’t avoid.\”
A visit with Dr. Eugene Gettelman, who celebrates his 100th birthday on June 17, shows how much medicine has gained and lost in the last half century
Joe Morris looks pretty good for a 79-year-old widower, his son Bob says in a new memoir. Despite the fact that Joe needs a hip replacement — not to mention a dry cleaner for his yellow cardigan — he has \”smooth, tawny skin, silky silvery hair,\” is \”fully conversant with the idea of happiness, especially his own,\” and, although it\’s only been a few months since his wife of 50 years died, he\’s about to start dating — much to Bob\’s consternation
He\’s young, he\’s buff, he\’s Jewish
A nice Jewish doctor decides his family must live on in a camper and surf . . . all the time; and here\’s the documentary to prove it
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As soon as they put him on my belly, I knew. I looked at his eyes, and they were a bit puffy, as is normal after a regular delivery, but I knew.
My husband, Mark, said he looked perfect, with all fingers and toes accounted for. I kept asking if he was all right; he was our second child, after all, and I knew he wasn\’t, because a mother knows.
Mark kept believing everything was OK until he followed the nurses down to the nursery, and they asked for pediatricians to come in. Nurses attended to our first born, Jason — not doctors.
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