I take another quick trip to NYC to teach the emergency medicine residents at Maimonides Medical Center. I’m planting the seeds for curious empathetic physicians to grow. I also made it to another major tennis tournament with an evening trip to the Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows. What a trip!

Prolific novelist Kristen Hannah wanted to shed some light on the unheralded nurses who served in the Vietnam War. These ladies faced the horrors of a brutal war with little training or support. They came home to hostility from anti-war protestors and few veteran services. The Women is a long story of history, love, loss and redemption.

So you dial 9-1-1 and highly trained men and women arrive to begin advanced medical care on the scene. How did this all begin. Kevin Hazzard tells the exciting story in “American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics’

Read my review here.

Physicians are writing all sorts of self-help, mystery, romance, and non-fictions books. Two young physicians have taken on writing about medical topics and specialties for kids. Here are my reviews of several in the Medical School for Kids series.