Barron H. Lerner, MD
Barron H. Lerner is an internal medicine physician.
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Conditions and diseases
If you Google “misophonia” you might be shocked to find numerous articles discussing the tragic suicide of 52-year-old Russian-born scholar, Dr. Michelle Lamarche Marrese. Journalist Joyce Cohen was the first to report Marrese’s suicide in the New York Post piece…
If you Google “misophonia” you might be shocked to find numerous articles discussing the tragic suicide of 52-year-old Russian-born scholar, Dr. Michelle Lamarche Marrese. Journalist Joyce Cohen was the first to report Marrese’s suicide in the New York Post piece “She could hear everything and it cost her her life.” Cohen explains that she and Marrese had been corresponding about Marrese’s struggles with misophonia for over 14 months, and that …
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Misophonia and suicide: Sound thinking is required
Physician voices
“Robert Loeb was the best damned ethicist I ever met.” When I first heard a senior colleague of mine utter these words in the mid-1990s, I was surprised. Time had not been particularly kind to Loeb, who had been the…
“Robert Loeb was the best damned ethicist I ever met.”
When I first heard a senior colleague of mine utter these words in the mid-1990s, I was surprised. Time had not been particularly kind to Loeb, who had been the chairman of medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from 1947 to 1960. Among other things, critics had chastised Loeb for being imperious and unwilling to listen; former students had even accused him …
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Ethical physicians, now and then
Conditions and diseases
When I finished my book on famous patients, the most common question I received was “Are the stories of sick celebrities really relevant to other patients?” My answer was that yes, with some caveats, these experiences are well-worth knowing. The…
When I finished my book on famous patients, the most common question I received was “Are the stories of sick celebrities really relevant to other patients?” My answer was that yes, with some caveats, these experiences are well-worth knowing.
The same can be said for the story of Patrick Swayze’s terminal pancreatic cancer, which has now been told by his widow, actress Lisa Niemi Swayze, in a new book, “Worth Fighting …
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How Patrick Swayze died: Why we should care
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