My Mother’s Mostly Beautiful Heart
Reeva Hunter Mandelbaum
May 11, 2006
\”Overall, she has a mostly beautiful heart\” is what the cardiologist, my brother\’s friend, says
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Life More Ordinary
Rabbi Lisa Edwards
April 27, 2006
In this week\’s double Torah portion, Tazria-Metzorah (Leviticus 13, in particular), God instructs Moses and Aaron on the role of priests when people take ill.
Saul Kroll: Healing Hand at Cedars-Sinai
Tom Tugend
January 5, 2006
Saul Kroll is a firm believer in yetzer hatov, and the 87-year-old Westside resident translates it into practice six days a week as an emergency room volunteer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Emergency Room Serves as Memorial
Dina Kraft
December 2, 2004
The gleaming digital tracking board that dominates Shaare Zedek\’s new emergency room, with its color-coded system for monitoring patients, has Dr. David Applebaum\’s fingerprints all over it.
So do the more private individual rooms for patients, the improved nurse-to-patient ratio and an area for paramedics to rest and grab a cup of coffee between calls.
A Man Walks Into a Hospital and . . .
Hank Rosenfeld
October 28, 2004
Irving Brecher, 91-year-old wannabe-stand-up comic, is nervous. The Doctors Emeritus Society of Cedars-Sinai is at the buffet in the Harvey Morse room, a conference hall where the old practitioners gather every month to hear specialists on subjects like pain control. Sometimes a marine biologist will discuss Darwin.
Q & A With Norman Brokaw
David Finnigan
April 15, 2004
Norman Brokaw\’s first day at the William Morris Agency was July 7, 1943; he has never worked anywhere else.
Community Briefs
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2003
Senior City of Los Angeles officials, visiting Israel under the auspices of the L.A. Jewish Federation, presented a proclamation from the L.A. City Council to Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai praising Israel as a \”bedrock of stability, democracy and modernity with shared common values of pluralism and cultural diversity.\”
Doctor Helps Kids Deal With Diabetes
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
April 24, 2003
If there\’s such thing as a typical doctor, Francine Kaufman surely doesn\’t fit the mold. First, as Zucker noted, \”She\’s the only doctor we know who comes to work in stilettos and a miniskirt.\”
Supervising Life
Gaby Wenig
February 6, 2003
Two women shared a room in a major Israeli hospital some years ago, both awaiting the insemination portion of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. One of the women, \”Mrs. Cohen,\” was undergoing the procedure under the supervision of a mashgiach [religious supervisor] from Machon Puah — an Israeli religious fertility institution — and the other, \”Mrs. Rabinovich,\” was not.
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