HOWARD GOLDSTEIN
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 8/17/2020
September song
Retirement is now six weeks and counting. Retirement looms in the time of Covid. What started out as a best-laid plan over a year ago is rapidly becoming a reality. It has not been without a few diversions and unexpected forks in the road, however. - 8/2/2020
The sound of silence
The email arrived in the Monday morning flurry. It was from Dan enquiring whether “Dr. Goldstein’s office was opening for patients.” I responded and asked him to email my secretary and arrange an appointment. This was his preferred mode of communication. Dan is congenitally deaf. - 7/23/2020
To sleep, perchance to dream
An explosive flash of light illuminates the room, jolting me from the restorative phase of a long-awaited sleep. In the depths of the darkness of the night, the bedroom is as if on fire. The clinical differential would include an acute cerebrovascular event or a novel seizure, neither prognostically reassuring. I lie in the stillness, cold-sweating, until pulse and orientation are considered stable. I leave the bed, walk into the great room, gaze out into the dark stillness and settle into the iconic chair, the epitome of personal space and comfort. The time is 2:10 a.m. - 7/12/2020
Not another COVID blog!
- 6/22/2020
In the aftermath of the pandemic
Solo practitioners have been further isolated during COVID-19 - 4/22/2020
Six (foot) decrees of separation
Reflecting on the new ways we're trying to connect when circumstances force us apart - 4/13/2020
Ranting in a time of COVID-19
Even if we manage to correct our mistakes in managing this pandemic, we're in this for the long haul - 3/18/2020
COVID-19 chronicles: Evac from the desert
We are unexpectantly travelling today. We have been unceremoniously thrust into an earlier-than-scheduled departure from Palm Springs out of necessity, which some would translate as survival.
