I was minding my own business, principally concerned with basketball and girls, when my parents told me there was a letter addressed to me at our home in the north Bronx. I was 13, making this letter an anomaly. Tearing it open, I read, “Congratulations {to me}, you {me} have been accepted into the Bronx High School of Science beginning this coming Fall.” I had heard of that school, because of parents who boasted that their child was at “Science”. When I asked my Junior High

It has been one year since I became wheelchair bound. It was not a step back; rather it was the way to go forward with my mobility and my life.  My spine had progressively degenerated from older age: the vertebrae in my back which kept me erect and able to walk were collapsing on one another. When that happens, pain pervades the body. And everyday abilities, like walking, bathing, eating, writing, and dressing are robbed of the muscle and nerves, usually taken for granted, ne

Source: Amazon Streaming on Amazon Prime, with subtitles A film review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer Antarctica is the world’s southernmost continent on our globe, and boasts being its windiest, coldest, and iciest of our continents. At 5.5 million square miles, ice covers 98 percent of its land. It notably hosts the South Pole. It is a forbidding and deadly place today, all the more so 100 years ago, making it an explorer’s dream, and a deadly one.  Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition

It was the "golden hour" of the day. My wife and I were at a former 19th century Yankee estate in Massachusetts, converted into a venue for weddings and other joyous and notable occasions. A late day sun streamed through the fall leaves festooning from a dense collection of hundred-year-old trees, which framed two stone posts, each crowned with a medley of autumnal flowers, only outshone by the couple as they looked at one another on the occasion of their marriage. The bridal

A book review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer What do you get when you breed a Roman Catholic Nun with a Roman Catholic Priest, who both left the Church to marry? You guessed right if your answer was John Fugelsang, a stand-up and radio comedian/satirist who for several years had a 3-hour, weekly, call-in radio show on Sirius XM. On his show, Fugelsang proved to be really quick witted and given to satire. He did not suffer fools (though he never shamed them). But they were quickly off t

By Dr Lloyd Sederer When Covid-19 was last raging – and in the years after – doctors were fleeing direct patient care. As were nurses....

By Dr. Lloyd I. Sederer Your son leaves his dirty football uniform on the floor of his bedroom - despite your almost countless pleas to...

For years, I watched the Finals of the US Open Tennis Tournament. What I saw was not just in a league of its own: It was in another...

By Lloyd I Sederer MD After school, 3 days a week, from when I was ten until 13, I dutifully walked about a mile from public school to a...