I’m curious how many of you will make the connection with the title of this piece. No, it is not pointing out that I as president of WCMS wear a “Lion’s Mane” which you can see by my picture is a stretch! I did back in the early 70’s sport an impressive...

The Sunday Time’s book review of March 6 contained an interesting review of a book entitled The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics by Stephen Coss...

I recently participated in this year’s House of Delegates meeting. It was my first time serving as a delegate and it was quite an experience. It was a good feeling to be in a large space with some 300 of my colleagues as we patiently slogged...

On April 24 I attended a memorial for Dr. Neil Shapiro at the Greenwich Reform Synagogue. He died on March 26, 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic so this event as has so often been the case in this era was postponed for...

It is a dictum in primary care pediatrics that one should expect the common, but keep an eagle eye out for the unexpected. Also, we need to recognize that the rare often comes in cloaked in the various garbs of the quotidian ills...

I was greatly saddened to hear of the untimely death of Dr. Paul Farmer at age 62. I first learned about him when I read “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World” by Tracy Kidder...

To get to Katonah, a small village in Northern Westchester, from New York City, one can take the train as so many have done since rail service was first established in the 1850’s. Getting off the train from New York, one crosses over...

This will be my final president’s column, but be assured I will continue to write my regular column. It goes without saying that this has been quite a year. Our lives were upended in all sorts of unexpected ways. We are thankful for modern...

It goes without saying that the last year has been a real emotional roller coaster ride, increasingly discouraging statistics punctuated by hope inspiring good news. As the pandemic wears on, it is harder to get excited by uplifting news...