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True stories are more bizarre than any fiction, and Dr. Gary Small knows this best. After thirty distinguished years of psychiatry, Small has seen it all and during this lecture he opens his office doors for the first time to tell all about the most mysterious, intriguing and bizarre patients of his career.
Often funny, sometimes tragic, and always compelling, Dr. Small takes you on a tour of his career that moves from the halls of a crowded inner-city Boston emergency room to the multi-million dollar ski lodges of the nation’s elite. In between, he introduces a strange cast of true-life characters and conditions, while dealing with secret double lives, a man convinced that his penis is shrinking, and frighteningly psychotic romantic desires. His career and personal life come full circle when his own mentor becomes his patient, making Small realize that no one is beyond mental exploration — not even himself.
Whether you're forty or eighty, Dr. Lachs' talk is intended to provide an insider's guide to help you navigate the complex and confusing system of modern American healthcare so you can make the best choices for yourself and your loved ones.
Dr. Lachs discusses information about ways to:
- Negotiate care decisions with aging parents
- Budget for late-life health care costs as well as retirement funds
- Manage care transitions between a home and an elder care center
- Make lifestyle improvements in your forties & fifties that can add years to your life
- Outfit your home to ensure that you can stay in it for as long as possible
The word “dwarf” was a difficult one for Julie Bond Genovese and her diminutive stature carried labels that seemed to make her world just as small yet her biggest fear throughout life was not the teasing and adversity she experienced, but the fear of never finding happiness. While attending Hamilton College in New York, Genovese spent a semester in France to attend art school. This experience, along with living in places, such as Hawaii and Massachusetts, far away from friends and family, helped Genovese discover that her physical obstacles didn’t have to stand in the way of spiritual and emotional growth. She found that being different allowed her to find the commonalities that connected her to others. As career, marriage and motherhood unfolded, she discovered that her body had not been in her way. In fact, it had shown her the way to the very joy and happiness she was seeking. Genovese’s personal journey through life’s grand rites of passage is applicable to anyone facing life’s obstacles. Her revelations provide guidance for standing tall in the world and living fearlessly. Visit Julie Genovese's Website: .http://www.nothingshortofjoy.com/
MITCH ALBOM is an internationally renowned and best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have collectively sold over 28 million copies worldwide; have been published in forty-one territories and in forty-two languages around the world; and have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed television movies.
As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Mitch Albom explores issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. His latest is his first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have A Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an 82-year-old rabbi from Albom’s old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.
Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of fewer than a dozen female
heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even
more exclusive group—those surgeons who perform heart transplants. Healing
Hearts is the story of the making of a surgeon who also calls herself a
wife and mother. Dr. Magliato takes us into her highly demanding,
physically intense, male-dominated world and shows us how she masterfully works
to save patients lives every day.
Come to know many of those patients
whose lives Dr. Magliato has touched: a baby born with a hole in her heart, a
ninety-four-year-old woman with heart failure, and a thirty-five year old movie
producer who saves her own life by recognizing the symptoms of a heart
attack. Along the way, Dr. Magliato sheds light on the rarely recognized
symptoms of heart attack and cardiovascular disease—the #1 killer of women in
America—and the specific measures that can be taken to prevent it.
Going beyond the personal
stories of her patients, Dr. Magliato sheds light on a medical epidemic, cardiovascular
disease, which is the number one killer of women in America. 41,000,000 women
are currently living with the disease, and even more startling, one in every
2.4 women will die from cardiovascular illness. With these staggering
statistics in mind, Dr. Magliato’s book is full of information to educate woman
about heart disease, what the risk factors are, why more women than men die of
the disease, and what women can do to minimize the risk.
Jenny McCarthy, leading spokesperson for autism awareness, has teamed up with Dr. Jerry Kartzinel of Defeat Autism Now!, an
organization of biomedical doctors who work to recover children by
correcting the patient's toxically overloadeded system. According to
Jenny, Dr. Kartzinel's protocol helped her son, Evan, recover from
autism and can also benefit children with ADD, ADHD, OCD, and other disorders. Together, Jenny McCarthy and Dr. Kartzinel have created a resource book for parents on how to treat autism in children. Titled HEALING AND PREVENTING AUTISM: A Complete Guide, the book gives parents information about biomedical treatment.
Rabbi Hirsch was ordained in 1998 and spent the next 8 years as the first woman rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, the largest Conservative synagogue in the western U.S. During her tenure at Sinai that Rabbi Hirsch first stepped out from behind the formal podium to move among the congregation, building a more personal relationship with her audience.
Since leaving Sinai in 2006 she has been sharing her unique blend of the spiritual and the everyday with a larger audience, appearing on “The Today Show” , “ABC News”, “Inside Edition”, “Faith Matters Now” and “Thirty Good Minutes” as a spiritual commentator, discussing interfaith issues as a frequent guest on “KTLA News” and “Naomi’s New Morning” show, and offering relationship advice on “The Tyra Banks Show.”
Her first book,We Plan, God Laughs: 10 Steps to Finding Your Divine Path When Life Is Not Turning Out Like You Wanted(Doubleday), was published in April 2008. The book reflects a theme in Hirsch’s own life and she expertly guides readers through a spiritual and introspective journey toward reaching their divine potential.
For many, Bernie Siegel, MD, needs no introduction. He has touched many lives all over our planet. In 1978 he began talking about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. As a physician, who has cared for and counseled innumerable people whose mortality has been threatened by an illness, Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our society grapples with today. He continues to assist in the breaking of new ground in the field of healing and personally struggling to live the message of kindness and love.
