I remember the first time a supervising physician suggested that I order a drug test before prescribing a controlled medicine to one of my primary care patients. I felt queasy. I started to sweat. I thought, “Did you say drug test? Seriously? I’m no cop!” I worried that my patient would be offended. A decade Read more
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Here’s a young woman in my office, the third appointment of the day for me. She’s in her second trimester of pregnancy; maybe she hasn’t seen a doctor since she graduated from her own pediatrician a few years ago. She thinks of herself as healthy, and she is, except that when we start talking, it Read more
Editors’ Note: Big news to report. Montefiore Health System and Yeshiva University have reached an historic agreement on the future of Einstein. Montefiore and Yeshiva have agreed to a joint venture that will help secure Einstein’s future and create additional research, education and clinical opportunities for years to come – with the goal of producing Read more
Editors’ Note: When she heard about dearth of rehabilitation facilities for children in war-torn Iraq, Dr. Huma Naqvi, assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an attending physician at Montefiore Medical Center, Einstein’s University Hospital, decided that she had to find a way to help, even if she couldn’t physically Read more
Editor’s Note: This holiday season, parents of young children can thank a group of doctor advocates for making the season safer. Dr. Bryan J. Rudolph of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center describes efforts that resulted in drastically reducing the number of dangerous magnetic toys in the marketplace. As practicing pediatric gastroenterologists Read more
What’s the best way to convey scientific information to nonscientists? That’s a question young investigator Sabriya Stukes pondered this week at the second annual student research symposium sponsored by the Bronx Science Consortium. The event comes on the heels of Stukes successfully defending her Ph.D. in microbiology & immunology at Einstein. “Whenever I think about Read more
