Perle Feldman
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 2/24/2022
The Bubbie business
By the time my grandkids' parents came to pick them up, we were exhausted but happy and satisfied. “What good grandparents you are!” you might be thinking, but you see I have my own agenda. - 1/23/2022
War stories: O, do not wish one more!
The problem with working during COVID is these are not abstract ideas: bed closures, people missing vital surgeries and treatments, refugees pouring across the border, escaping exploitation and mistreatment. These are people with names, and faces, beating hearts, bellies that move under my examining hand, tears and frightened smiles. - 1/9/2022
Chocolate cake: a medical metaphor
If you think of medicine as a large iced chocolate layer cake, you can think of the icing as the signs and symptoms of illness and the names of all the diagnoses. The top layer of the cake is common disease. - 12/16/2021
House-call horrors: It's Christmas at the biker bar too
What was I, a nice Jewish girl and new mother, doing out on a cold Christmas night riding around in an overheated car doing home visits? Well, someone has to work Christmas and it may as well be me. - 12/12/2021
Communication skills: I know ‘em when I see ‘em
While there's no doubt some doctors have a natural talent for communication, these skills can be learned just like any other. - 11/28/2021
Conflicts of interest
Having entire families as your patients can come with its challenges, but sometimes things get sinister. - 10/24/2021
What I learned at my mother's knee before, during and after abortion reform
"There is no such thing as no abortion. There is only safe and unsafe abortion." - 9/15/2021
Learning to see: portraits and patients
I'm not one of those physicians who knew I was destined to be a doctor. Unlike many of my friends and classmates, there were no doctors in my family. In fact, most of the women in my family were visual artists. - 8/24/2021
Dear politicians: Here's what doctors want
I am not a health economist or a policy expert, but a simple household and garden family doctor who has been working in the trenches for a long time. I do, however, have some ideas. - 8/11/2021
I'll walk you to your car
Now rapidly gentrifying with many fancy restaurants and condos, the neighborhood where I first began practise was a place where many of the inhabitants were on welfare and a good number involved in crime.
