No (simple) carb-loading here
I know, I know, we have pretty much had enough of diets and the never-ending, constantly contradictory advice we get from our loved ones…
Scent of a woman – and a man
Recently, while doing a TV interview about sex and my upcoming book, the interviewer, a lovely man, seemed stumped when I said both men…
The fluid sex
A few years ago, a patient came to see me who told me a story unlike anything I had ever heard before. The patient,…
The super power of hormones
By Erika Schwartz, MD When my editor gave me the topic for this month’s column, I thought it funny. Doesn’t everyone know how hormones…
The genuine pearls of medical wisdom
By Erika Schwartz, MD When I was in medical school and then in training in Brooklyn at Kings County Hospital, I saw the most…
The importance of your voice in health care
If we all had voices, medical care would be a lot better for us and the outcomes would be more positive and far less…
Style – a prescription for wellness
By Erika Schwartz, MD “Dress for success. The clothes make the man. You are what you wear. Dress like a slob, work like a…
Physician, move thyself
By Erika Schwartz, MD I like working out. It’s always been one of my favorite activities, even before it was popular or cool. The…
Play it smart to stay healthy away from home
By Erika Schwartz, MD The worst nightmare for most of us living in our present-day “flat world” where getting on a plane and leaving…
Hot flashes can signal heart disease
I always wondered how my mother’s generation dealt with hot flashes. My mother never mentioned having one and neither did any of the women…
Animal magnetism, or just hormones?
When I think about animal magnetism, I think about sex that is not attached to feelings of love or romance. When we refer to…
Finding refuge in a doctor’s care
Imagine this: Going to the doctor and finding the doctor’ office is a place of solace, a haven from fear and danger. Does that…
Sex and hormones
By Erika Schwartz, MD I was just at a women’s empowerment retreat in Malibu and much of the talk among the 50-plus high-profile women…
Reading – as essential as breathing
In our age of Google and sound bites, reality TV and vanishing old-fashioned storytelling, you have to wonder if there’s still any place left…
Succeeding against all odds
Today, more young women than ever are dazzled by the idea of becoming doctors. They dominate medical schools as they do many other professional schools and higher education in general. It’s a far cry from 150 years ago when Elizabeth Blackwell made history as the first woman admitted to an American medical school. And it’s a far cry from the early 1970s when I applied to medical school in the midst of a changing society.
A PORTRAIT OF A DOCTOR IN THE MAKING
When I was 5 years old in Bucharest, my uncle, a physician and researcher, took me to his lab. What I saw there ignited in me the burning desire to become a doctor, a desire that has never been extinguished.
Rx and the city
My career in medicine has taken me from trauma to critical care, from internal medicine to anti-aging and hormones and it all pretty much happened geographically in Westchester. That is until one day about 12 years ago when I became a Manhattan doctor.
The caring doc
When I think of my first two years of medical school, a blur of endless hours of studying and an overwhelming feeling of anxiety permeating the air immediately overtake me and I get a knot in the pit of my stomach. I’m sure I’m not alone. Just ask any physician who wants to remember. He will concur.
When the cure is worse than the disease
The bane of all men is prostate cancer. More so than heart disease because of what happens once prostate cancer is suspected. Unfortunately, too often it is addressed with aggressive surgical methods.
MEDICINE WORTH IT’S WEIGHT IN GOLD
We all love to wear it and are attracted to its glimmering beauty in jewelry, accessories, coins, bullion and investments. But gold is also…