This past week was my first week at work in an actual hospital, as an actual doctor! I’ve been working a day a week at a biotech startup, which is fun, interesting, and different, but it’s not practicing cardiology. Just to remind everyone, all of my medical diplomas and board exams transferred to the…
Read moreCamping In The Negev
This past weekend we went camping with some friends in the Negev. We stayed at the Khan Be’erot campsite, which is at the bottom of the Mitzpe Ramon crater, about halfway between Be’er Sheva and Eilat, pretty much right in the middle of the Negev desert. The weather is perfect there this time of year,…
Read moreMacabi Bnai Brak
I’m finally starting my three month work observation period at Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer, just outside Tel Aviv. Once I complete that, I’ll have my official recognition by the Israeli Medical Association as a Cardiologist. (They recognized all my US board exams, etc, they only want to have me “signed off” by one…
Read moreRiding The Train
I usually take the car to work (for my one day a week of work 😑.) Except if Val needs the car or if it’s in the shop. And last week it was in the shop (again 🙄🙄) so I took the bus to work. And this time I decided to step it up a…
Read moreThe Hula Valley – Bird Migration
Yesterday we went on a tour up north to see the Hula Valley. It’s north of the Kinerret, the Sea of Galilee, surrounded by mountains on all sides. It’s just a bit south of Kfar Blum, where we had gone tubing down the Jordan River last year. The valley is bounded by the Golan heights…
Read moreFlu Shots
Well the lockdown here in Israel is easing up very slowly. The mall is still closed but they have opened restaurants only for take-out; no eating in or even eating on the premises outside yet. They’re also worried about flu season because they’re worried that if the hospitals are already full of COVID that…
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