www.careoftheolderperson.com shares the Good News of Ronald M. Caplan MD, CM, FACS, FACOG, FRCS(C), Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University Ronald M. Caplan MD is an Obstetrician Gynecologist and medical author. He did his medical and postgraduate training at McGill University, where his interest in renal disease in pregnancy and homotransplantation culminated in the first delivery of a baby from a mother who had received a deceased donor kidney transplant. After serving on the Faculty of McGill University, he transferred to New York City, and a long career at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University , where he became one of the early proponents of minimally invasive surgery, and where … [Read more...]
Observations on Growing Older
Your kids are becoming you... and you don't like them but your grandchildren are perfect! Going out is good. Coming home is better! When people say you look "Great"... they add "for your age!" When you needed the discount you paid full price now you get discounts on everything, movies, hotels, flights, but you are too tired to use them. You forget names ... but it's OK because other people forgot they even knew you!!! The 5 pounds you wanted to lose is now 15 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 15 pounds. You realize you're never going to be really good at anything....especially golf. Your husband is counting on you to remember things you don't remember. The things you used to care to do, you no longer care to do, but you really do care that you don't care to … [Read more...]