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...

It goes without saying that the world today is quite different from what it was just three short months ago. We are now facing a global pandemic with uncertain mortality rates and repercussions throughout our communities. Many of our...

As physicians, we have been trained to keep the best interest of others at heart during our professional encounters. We, therefore, may falsely assume that others are similarly motivated in such an altruistic manner. This can lead us...