The Dental & The Incidental
So, I was looking through an old photo album when I came across some pictures of my 92-year-old grandmother. Twenty years ago, she traveled up from Florida alone to spend Passover with us. She was quite a feisty woman who spoke her mind in a form of Yinglish…
For many people the notion of a house call by a doctor is of an era gone by. Yet, last Sunday, I made such a visit to one of my long-time patients named Karl. Karl and Nelly, his wife of nearly sixty years, live in the Bronx and…
People Magazine is hands-down the most popular magazine in my office. Care to guess what television channel is most frequently requested by patients? (and yes, we have televisions in each treatment room!) If you said CNN or CNBC, you’d be wrong…it’s the Food Network! Men prefer Giada De…
Well the holidays have come and gone and here we are in a new year with aspirations for health, happiness and prosperity (a return to normalcy doesn’t sound that bad either). As I was preparing for my first workday of 2010, I couldn’t help but notice the tightness…
The evening before Christmas Eve, I was taking care of one of my many favorite dental patients (let’s call her “Sara”). While we were exchanging holiday wishes, she remarked about what a wonderful year this had been and how much she was looking forward to the new year.…
I have a long-established tradition at my dental office of celebrating the holidays by treating my staff to dinner and a show. This past Friday, 11 of us dined at Sardi’s and then went on to see the musical revival of Hair on Broadway. The meal…
