Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published May 22, 2020
Dr. Evan Schwarz says he went into emergency medicine because “you got to see people who had no other place to go and help them in that situation. And you had a combination of the intellectual side of medicine, as well as doing as procedures.”These...
Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published May 22, 2020
After graduating from Rockwood Summit High School, Nikki Gilsinn was interested in attending nursing school, but the closest school with openings was too far away. A director of Sanford Brown College asked Gilsinn whether she had ever heard of respiratory...
Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published May 22, 2020
Nancy Dubman started working as a checker at the Schnucks grocery store near Olive Boulevard and Mason Road in west St. Louis County about a year and a half ago.“I absolutely love it,” she said.Two months of working during the pandemic hasn’t changed...
Ask Julie Rosenfeld what has made the biggest impression on her in caring for COVID-19 patients, and she’ll tell you in one word: debility.“From a therapy standpoint, it’s amazing how debilitated these poor people are even if they are off the ventilator...
Mercy Hospital and Mercy Research are participating in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s programs allowing use of plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to treat hospitalized ones.“If someone tested positive for COVID-19 and has been symptom-free...
When the coronavirus first hit the St. Louis area, doctors such as Neil Ettinger were taking cues from their counterparts in Seattle and New York, as well as in countries such as Italy that had many more cases of the virus and more experience treating...
Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published May 22, 2020
Max Oppenheimer, marketing director of the Brentmoor Retirement Community, typically spends much of his time networking and providing tours of the University City residence, which has a significant Jewish population.These days, though, the Brentmoor,...
A typical day for Dr. Michael Klevens starts about 6:30 or 7 a.m., when he checks in with the emergency departments at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield and St. Luke’s Des Peres Hospital to see how the previous night went. After consulting with...
Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published May 22, 2020
Curbside delivery is hopefully swift, safe and easy for customers, but that doesn’t mean it’s a simple task for workers, said Rick Williams, the owner of pharmacies in University City and Ladue.“It really is a change in the whole model — when...
The dark cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic has entered a new and, for many, an even more frustrating phase. While an uncertain future unfolds, some parts of our nation, state and local community are beginning to allow certain businesses to reopen while others...
Among the many questions that the current shelter-in-place situation has posed, here is one more: How can the Jewish community properly and respectfully observe Yom HaShoah when the COVID-19 shutdown has made large gatherings impossible? Yom HaShoah,...
Editor’s note: This column by Dr. James Hinrichs was made possible thanks to the generosity of Dr. Jonathan Root, Dr. Norman Druck and Galia Movitz. Thank you for your kind responses to my article last month in the Jewish Light on COVID-19. The situation...
