Ronald Halweil, MD

Ronald Halweil is an otolaryngologist and author of Fifty Years a Doctor: The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic.

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Conditions and diseases

What does an ENT doctor know about childbirth?

Ronald Halweil, MD

February 24, 2023Feb 24, 2023

An excerpt from Fifty Years a Doctor: The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic. I went to medical school for four years. I was a medical intern for one year and a surgical resident for one…

An excerpt from Fifty Years a Doctor: The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic.

I went to medical school for four years.

I was a medical intern for one year and a surgical resident for one year. And finally, an otolaryngology resident for three years.

My medical license permits me to practice medicine and surgery as a general practitioner.

I never lost interest in general medicine or the history, …

Conditions and diseases

The worst illness this physician ever had

Ronald Halweil, MD

January 7, 2023Jan 7, 2023

An excerpt from Fifty Years a Doctor: The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic. Our favorite internist and chairman of the internal medicine department was lecturing us on sensitivity to patients' suffering when they have a…

An excerpt from Fifty Years a Doctor: The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic.

Our favorite internist and chairman of the internal medicine department was lecturing us on sensitivity to patients’ suffering when they have a serious illness. He stressed that our sensitivity would increase as we got older and had more life experiences. Then he added a wish that every one of us should have …

Medical education

A retired physician’s medical school memories

Ronald Halweil, MD

December 19, 2022Dec 19, 2022

An excerpt from Fifty Years a Doctor: The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic. President Kennedy's assassination One cold winter morning, all the medical students had to leave the warmth of the medical school to get…

An excerpt from Fifty Years a Doctor: The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic.

President Kennedy’s assassination

One cold winter morning, all the medical students had to leave the warmth of the medical school to get to Kings County Hospital across the street for “rounding” with attendings.

We didn’t have our full winter clothing on since it was only across the street, but we moved quickly to get …

Physician voices

Singing doctors in the operating room

Ronald Halweil, MD

October 16, 2022Oct 16, 2022

An excerpt from Fifty Years a Doctor: The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic. It took me years to fully realize what a unique residency program I had enjoyed in my one-year general surgical training in…

An excerpt from Fifty Years a Doctor: The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic.

It took me years to fully realize what a unique residency program I had enjoyed in my one-year general surgical training in Honolulu.

Early in this residency, we had state-mandated education in leprosy. All the new doctors had to visit the Hawaiian leper colony on the island of Molokai for the tutorial and …

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Singing doctors in the operating room

Physician voices

When Brooklyn meets Alabama: a physician story from a 50-year career

Ronald Halweil, MD

June 25, 2020Jun 25, 20203

I never expected to have a friend from Alabama. My upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, didn't include anyone from the South, and this was a time in American history when the South was in turmoil. I recall black and white…

I never expected to have a friend from Alabama. My upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, didn’t include anyone from the South, and this was a time in American history when the South was in turmoil. I recall black and white images on our family’s TV showing federally enforced integration of schools and communities, swelling civil rights marches, and disturbing scenes of riots and attack dogs used to intimidate …