Coping with lung cancer
byRecently, we asked two experts at New York Medical College to give us a primer on the disease and the special caregiving it requires.
Westchester Medical Center
New innovations in brain and heart surgery at Westchester Medical Center
byYou know how people say, Well, it’s not brain surgery. For Simon Hanft, M.D., it really is. A “Heart-in-a-Box”: Sounds like the perfect Valentine’s Day gift, no? It is a gift, all right, but one of a different, life-saving kind that can ease the process and increase the number of successful heart transplants. And Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla – one of seven heart transplant centers in New York state – is the first to make use of it.
Seeing his patients through
byMany Covid and migraine sufferers are in it for the long haul. Fortunately for them, so is Gary Rogg, M.D.
Living his truth
byEleven years ago, David Rabadi had a public breakdown on the Cross County Parkway. Today, he helps others overcome the stigma of mental illness and being rejected as a gay Arab.
Mending broken hearts
bySrihari S. Naidu, MD – director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyophathy Center of Excellence at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla – is world-renowned as an interventional cardiology expert in minimally invasive treatments of heart disease.
Healing, an art and a science
byWritten by Janet T. Langham Some people believe that healing is an art. Others assert it is a science. I prefer to think of healing…
Pucillo’s hearty outcomes
byIt was the Thursday before Labor Day in 2004 when Dr. Anthony Pucillo — whose practice deals primarily with coronary artery disease and peripheral…
Hands-on medicine
byPhotograph by Bob Rozycki Versatile, tireless, swift and nimble, our two hands are vital assets to daily existence. Working alone or in tandem, they…
Local Doc Hero to Haiti
byIf you’re like me, you know Good Samaritans who trekked to Haiti after the infamous earthquake of 2010. But if you’re like Dr. Ron…
The Little Hospital that Could
byThe days and months following Haiti’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake summoned an epic and immediate international relief effort. But when most good stewards departed Port-au-Prince once…
One singular sensation
bySurgery is medicine’s great production, a scrupulous dance in stainless steel where players are sterile and scrubbed. And when a character arrives after a…
Succeeding against all odds
byToday, 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.