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Monday, March 16, 2026

Tom Had To Leave Kaiser To Get Better

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   Finally, Tom Got Better When He Was Treated At Stanford, Not Kaiser Today I talked to an old friend and season ticket partner...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

The Presidential Pardon - Book Review of a MAGA-inspired book

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  A few years ago, my next door neighbor David Levine, and I were talking. We’ve been next door neighbors for umpteen years, maybe 40 or so,...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Life Is Unpredictable

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Life is unpredictable. There are always the statistics. You do better if you exercise and don't drink to excess. You get educ...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

A Modest Proposal To End The Terror

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The liberal world is looking for a leader, or a new group of leaders. The sclerotic leadership of Schumer et al. is a dead world of margina...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Notes on Aging, by Carol S. Wolman, MD

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My classmate, friend, and first year med school anatomy partner, Carol Wolman, read my last post and called our attention (mine and our othe...
Friday, January 9, 2026

My Friend David And I Have Gotten Old

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I called my stepdaughter Sara on my way down to the Peninsula to see David. She asked me if I had any feelings, any hesitations about going...
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Monday, December 29, 2025

How To Save Primary Care

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Lisa Rosenbaum is a Harvard cardiologist and a wonderful writer for the New England Journal of Medicine. I didn...
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A Berkeley resident for 46 years, I went to Lower Merion High in the Philadelphia suburbs,then Harvard College (history, Leverett House), Harvard Medical School, and did my pediatrics training at the University of California San Francisco. I also earned a Masters' Degree at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, where I am now on the Advisory Board. I was a Fed in Washington with the U.S. Public Health Service in 1968-70, and 1973-4. As a member of the USPHS I studied at the Stockholm School of Economics for a year, and at Yale. Later on I was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCSF doing health policy analysis, published a book on Migrant Health Policy and many articles in publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the AMA Journal, and taught some. I practiced pediatrics from 1979 to 2012. I was President and owner of Bayside Medical Group, the largest privately held primary care medical groups in the Bay Area, until I sold it to Stanford in 2012. I am married and have three children and two step-children, 3 granddaughters and a grandson. While our permanent residence is Berkeley, we live in Maui part-time.
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