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Michael Gordon MD | Iuniverse | May 29, 2009
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Helicopter evacuations, teaching West Bank Arab nursing students,
life and death medical decisions, aging Holocaust survivors,
heart-breaking ethical decisions -- Brooklyn Beginnings immerses
the reader in the life stories of Dr. Michael Gordon who helped
forge contemporary Geriatrics in his adopted Canada. His Brighton
Beach childhood, his initially quiescent Jewish roots, and a unique
Lithuanian and Scottish interface profoundly inspired Gordon''s
personal and professional journey. From his early wanderings
through Europe to his Scottish medical education, through Eastern
European travels and his Israeli immigration, with its associated
military service and Holocaust survivor exposure, Gordon''s arrival
in Canada was a culmination of his personal challenges.
He drew on his life experiences to help his patients, their
families and medical trainees for more than thirty years. Among the
life-altering experiences in this personal reflection are:
experiencing Israel''s Six Day War from within an Arab country;
confronting the U.S. Selective Service and the Vietnam War; being a
physician in the Israeli Air Force; engaging in clinical and
educational activities within the Arab world; and fulfilling a
seminal professional and educational role as a geriatrician and
ethicist. The complex human condition is engagingly and warmly
presented against the profound challenges of health and
disease.