What happens in the field before a person arrives as a patient in the Emergency Department? A LOT
Sometimes the scene is total chaos and dangerous. Highly trained emergency medical personnel answer the call day and night every day of the year. Read about my ride-along and a book that will take you there too.

When parents and family members are told that their precious child has autism, they go scrambling for information.  Yes, they get reliable information from healthcare professionals. Likely, they go online for information and recommendations on how to proceed. Can lay people tell the difference between reliable information outlets and the hundreds of sites peddling misinformation and snake oil cures? Where can desperate parents go?

 Dr. Andrea Amalfitano has a long and unique understanding of pediatrics and medical genetics that inspired him to write an extensive resource titled: Autism Revealed: Clarity Through Understanding Its Causes: A Cutting-edge, Holistic Summary That Answers Your Questions about Autism. Here is my review.

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.