My first experience with Turkish coffee was when staying in an Israeli hotel and they had the free instant coffee in the room. You’d boil water in the electric kettle then take one of the red Elite brand long thing single use packages of instant coffee, add it to the water, add the sweetener, and…
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I completed my time here in the thick of the COVID pandemic, working in both the office and hospital. We wore masks every day all day, Regular surgical masks most of the time, N95 masks sometimes, and 3M respirators for higher risk exposures. Even though the exposure is higher at the hospital, i didn’t feel…
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This journal has been mainly about the actual steps we’ve taken to get to Israel. And there were a lot of steps. Starting way back close to three years before we ever got here. Now that we’ve been here for over a year and we’re a little more settled (we’re actually nowhere close to being…
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…and into the frying pan. The COVID numbers are rising in Israel now. I just left for a two week work trip to Arizona – one of the few places where COVID is worse than in Israel! Arriving at Ben-Gurion airport they have all the entrances sealed off except one. And you can’t even get…
Read moreOn Language And Seeing In 3D
Part of what I do in my cardiology practice is read echocardiograms. An echocardiogram is an ultrasound picture of the heart. The ultrasound beam comes out from the ultrasound probe in a flat beam, sort of shaped like a backwards pie or pizza slice. You can move the beam around the heart to get a…
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