Shickman has just completed a second round of chemotherapy and doctors are keeping him comfortable while they watch for infections and other side effects.
Although the voice at the other end of the phone is always that of a young person, the driving force behind Teen Line is Elaine Leader, a 79-year-old great-grandmother with a British accent and a propensity for hats and oversized costume jewelry.
\”A woman came into my office yesterday needing to make a decision about the amputation of her husband\’s leg,\” said Rabbi Levi Meier, the chaplain at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. \”It was a very difficult case, because her husband cannot give proper, informed consent, because his mind is not functioning anymore
How dare I have fun during chemotherapy? It\’s not that I look forward to seven hours of treatment. But with four of six rounds behind me, I no longer feel I\’m heading into an abyss.
Lunda Hoyle Gill sat in her spare room at a Westwood assisted-living center, the last stop on her remarkable life journey.\n\nThe artist once traveled to the remotest parts of the globe, racing to paint indigenous peoples before they disappeared. But that was before cancer ravaged her gut and Parkinson\’s disease crippled her fingers. Today, at 72, the artist can no longer paint. She can barely walk or hold a spoon.
For the second year in a row, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center topped the list of non-university Southern California hospitals, according to a U.S. News & World survey.
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