Doctors

Paging Dr. Husband: Confessions of a Jewish Doctor’s Wife

Sarah EpsteinAugust 30, 2017

Being married to a doctor can mean a lonely existence. Especially in the Jewish community.

Faith Leaders and Doctors Disrupt the Senate For the Sake of Health Insurance

Zackary Sholem BergerAugust 2, 2017

Read why this Jewish physician and others were arrested demonstrating support for patients in need

What Do Doctors Really Think About 30 Hour Shifts?

Peter D. Kramer and S.E. KramerMarch 24, 2017

Peter D. Kramer, author of “Listening To Prozac,” and his daughter debate work hours for medical interns, the first-year trainees who do much of the hands-on work with patients.

As War Winds Down, Doctors Heal Damaged Minds Amidst Gaza Destruction

ReutersAugust 16, 2014

In a ward at Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital, child therapist Rabeea Hamouda is trying to elicit a response from two small brothers, Omar and Mohammed, aged three and 18 months, hoping for some words or perhaps a smile.

Israeli Doctors Made Key Difference in Boston

JTAApril 22, 2013

Minutes after a terrorist attack killed three at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, doctors and nurses at the city’s hospitals faced a harrowing scene – severed limbs, burned bodies, shrapnel buried in skin.

Israel Medical Association Chairman Leads Hunger Strike

Renee Ghert-ZandJuly 27, 2011

Dr. Leonid Eidelman, the chairman of the Israel Medical Association, is doing something he would probably never allow any of his patients to do: He is going on a hunger strike to try to force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intervene in a four-month-old doctors’ strike.