My youngest child, Eitan, is 13 today and we are all looking forward to his Bar Mitzvah (Jewish coming of age ceremony) next weekend. This morning Esther and I took Eitan out for a bagel breakfast before school. He loves the attention, of course.
Any parent would rejoice in having a growing, healthy kid, but for [...]

More and more people are telling me their own Powerful Patient stories. I love it!
I heard this one at lunch today in Las Vegas as I reconnected in-person with CLL friend Dave Garcia, 50, a veteran pit boss at the famous Bellagio casino.
Dave and I met via the Internet seven years ago after he was [...]

The phone rang this morning on our new Patient Power Hotline (877-232-5445). On the line was a worried woman from Lawton, Oklahoma. She’d been diagnosed with malignant melanoma that had spread to her lymph nodes. She was waiting for more test results to learn how far the spread had gone. She had listened to our [...]

Most doctors are well meaning. They do not deliberately make mistakes or have their patients suffer. But within the past 11 days I suffered when two internists “got it wrong.” It took a third doctor, a cancer specialist, to get it right and ease my pain. The story has lessons for you.
It begins with a [...]

I am writing this as the calm of the Labor Day holiday is about to fade in the rear view mirror. All too soon we will be sprinting into Fall with no respite until Thanksgiving. After a refreshing summer, it is time to get down to business.
Later this week I will be in Houston for [...]

Usually when you or your partner is pregnant, it is a joyous event. We have three kids, and I can remember when my wife, Esther, announced that she was pregnant with our first child. It was an announcement at a family dinner at the future grandma’s house and I had the video camera rolling. The [...]