... color, and marginalized men, women, and gests the responsibility of maintaining children in America and elsewhere. He continuity. But in a free society, the rever­ THE EYE DOCTOR’S has portrayed his subjects as strong, dig­ ence for those symbols must...

... fluorescent lighting, and a pungent odor of disinfectant. This person—who might have been male or female—behaved with studied indifference, instructing us to put the patient—the exact words were “your patient”—on a metal table, which we did; and to remove his blanket, which we did. Just then the doctor...

...Margaret Morganroth Gullette Copyright © 2018 Tikkun magazine 2018 M y mother was an active, healthy 91-year-old when she fell on a marble floor in her high-rise, badly damaging three vertebrae. She didn’t tell me or go to a doctor, so by the time I arrived in Florida four days later...

...Martha Sonnenberg, MD Copyright © 2018 Tikkun magazine 2018 I am the daughter of a physician and a nurse. My mother taught me that a doctor cannot function without the help of a nurse, and my father taught me that a doctor must treat patients with compassion. When I was a child, I...

... played in the Nazi machine. His book The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing & the Psychology of Genocide explores some of these issues. The following piece, based on a talk,. . . raises an important perspective on how to think about the transformations in consciousness necessary to build a post-Cold-War...

... to turn my attention to my profession, that of medicine and health care. Since the revelations of torture at Abu Ghraib, and most recently, since the US Senate Intelligence Committee on Torture made public its report in December 2014, physicians have spoken out against the role of doctors...

... and trained, and another source in the current hospital-based model of disease management. Doctors are trained to fix problems; that is the measure of their competence. They are not trained to work with other health care professionals or seek advice from alternative caregivers or spiritual advisers...

... by Walgreens, have a child, or to test one’s fetus in utero for specific disease 23andMe, or Navigenics—are opening a whole new world risks. Perhaps one wants to know the risk for diseases that where we can assert responsibility for our own health. Doctors have a means of prevention...

... the fruit because she can’t get to the doctor in Ramallah, or because the medical care there stinks, or because they’ve mn out of insulin in the territories, or because she’s too superstitious to go to a doctor. I don’t ask him. The same way I don’t ask him how he, an Arab, got blond hair. Or why he...

... companies are willing to cover, supports, label it socialist, and get? is medically necessary and appropriate. depending on regulation. What doctors can Any doctor they choose. Doctors that participate in an insurance network use their m edia dollars to people...

...TIRZAH FIRESTONE By the time I made my presentation at the psychology conference in Amman — late on the second of four days together — I had warmed to this earnest group of young doctors and trauma workers. In the evenings we had gone out together to a café for tea, dessert, and shisha...

... unreasonably costly (because Jewish Film Festival. Film­ with two doctor who work at searcher or a doctor or nurse seeking to provide “enough” maker liana Trachtman has Kaiser and who have not seen or develop medical technolo­ for the medical profiteers and created a moving and dra­...

... nurse perished in Philadelphia treating soldiers with the Spanish Flu. The family gave similar sacrifice and service in World War II. Another sister, in the Women’s Army Corps, was killed in a tank accident. By happenstance, Norm likes to say, his was a “good war.” Some of the young doctors he...

...Miriam Maron Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 The Healing Power of Sacred Dance by M iriam M aron NE DAY A YOUNG DOCTOR NOTICED AN ELDER FROM THE LOCAL INDIAN...

... to come would who nurses and dentists, of doctors, vanguard the We were and Madrid. Azores the via through return thirty-hour a with Mexico through illegally traveling blockade, foolish, weak, a as stereotyped ere w Cubans apartheid. and prejudices U.S. flected...

..., tility to Cubans. There is even a U.S. stretches between cities, is a great way to who are truly thoughtful people—the program to get Cuban doctors abroad to meet people. We pick up thirty-five people wom an a doctor, her husband an engi­ defect, using dollar inducements, of course...

... to learn that I was sitting outside my doctor’s office on a Sunday, confused about why the building was locked. I thought it was Monday. I had been so tired that I had requested medical leave from work to get tested for mononucleosis. Mono was the only thing I could imagine that could account...

... teach her the importance of family. Artists teach her how to become obsessed with a subject and how to start over when something fails. It’s an ennobling portrait of a nurse. And I say that from the perspective of someone inculcated with the socioeconomically snobbish view that doctor, not nurse...