Like many of us during this interminable pandemic, I have found myself exploring new activities that can help ease the tedium of long hours at home with little social interaction. I have resurrected my piano playing and am currently working...

Regular readers of my column may remember that I am a big fan of audiobooks which I listen to anytime I am driving alone in my car. It allows me to get through a lot of novels and nonfiction works each year. It provides a discipline I don’t...

In previous columns I have written about the parallels between our current COVID-19 pandemic and the last great pandemic: AIDS. I recently read a book that flushed out for me even more details of the similarities and differences: How to...

I confess I am writing this post deadline having been sent a gentle reminder from our esteemed executive director Janine Miller. I like many of us, am coping with this pandemic by just trying to get through each day at a time. I am finding...

We are now eight months into the pandemic. We are fortunate here in Westchester County to have relatively low counts of covid-19 as compared to other parts of the country and the world. My pediatric office is humming: a combination...

We are now in the sixth month of the pandemic. Thankfully, the local situation is fairly quiescent and it gives us time to mobilize for the next surge which will certainly come. We are better prepared than we were back in March. The phase we...

Thank you all for being here, virtually. Ah virtually –it’s a strange word. I decided to look this up the actual definition: Virtual – “of relating to or possessing a power of acting without the agency of the matter”- Really didn’t like the “but”...

The last few months have brought sweeping changes among many areas of our society. It was unthinkable just a few months ago that a whole country (and the majority of the world) could be shut down by a rapidly spreading infectious...

In the past few weeks, physician offices across Westchester have cautiously opened and patients have started to trickle in. All around us “other businesses” have started to open in line with the recent NYS Department of Health and Governor...

As modern physicians, we were certain that we had everything under control. We understood the origins of disease. We had powerful medicines to control all forms of infection. We had even begun to make headway in understanding and...