Oct 8, 2020 | Current News
Another character in Roots and Branches and Making the Cut My mother: By 1935, Hitler had closed the progressive women’s schools, preventing women from entering university. Gretchen Steinbach left her home in Hamburg, Germany, in 1935 and went to England as a nanny...
Sep 23, 2020 | Current News
Characters in “Roots & Branches” and “Making the Cut” Like in fairy tales, Abdel Aziz’s stepmother was a sinful woman. When she banished him at age 6 from the village, Beni Harem in Upper Egypt and sold him into servitude in Cairo, her expectation was...
Sep 17, 2020 | Current News
In this series I’ll introduce the main characters of the hugely popular podcast “Making the Cut” makingthecutpodcast.com. These characters come to life in my book Roots & Branches soon to be available on Amazon. Abdel Aziz was born in 1905 in an...
Jul 18, 2018 | Medical Stories
“To this day, I wonder whether his death certificate truly reflected the cause of death: ‘physician-induced’ malnutrition.” – from The LeRoy catastrophe Below is the abstract of this article as published by The Columbia Medical Review. It can be viewed in full here....
Apr 18, 2018 | Medical Stories
In 2015 I published an article in the Columbia Medical Review outlining one of the most horrifying cases of hospital-induced malnutrition leading to death. You can read that article here. Years later, malnutrition in hospitalized patients persists. See the following...
