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December 20th, 2009

The legacy of Albert Einstein lives on with Dr. Thomas Martin Einstein

Irving
Dr Thomas Martin Einstein (clavin.com)

Dr Thomas Martin Einstein (clavin.com)

Albert Einstein had three children, but only one married and had children. Hans Albert Einstein was the only child to marry and have children. Hans Albert only child was Bernard Caesar Einstein (1930 – 2008) who was an acclaimed physicist and the last surviving grandchild of renowned physicist Albert Einstein. Hans Albert’s sister Lieserl Einstein is assumed to have died in infancy and Hans Albert’s younger brother Eduard Einstein developed severe schizophrenia at age 20 and had no children.

Bernard Caesar Einstein had four children, the oldest is Dr. Thomas Martin Einstein, an anesthesiologist at the Calvin Center and UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica. Dr. Einstein is a graduate of the UCLA School of Medicine and is certified in both Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology. Dr. Einstein’s is the proud father of three teenagers.

According to his web site, Dr. Einstein has always had a strong interest in outpatient surgery, and his work has evolved to a mostly office based practice. In addition to plastic surgery, he also does anesthesia for a wide variety of outpatient surgery and office based dental and oral surgery. His philosophy of practice is simple. The patient comes first! Each patient needs to be assessed individually, and their specific needs must be addressed. His goal is to do everything to make sure that the patient has the best possible experience before, during and after surgery. For many patients, anesthesia is a big scary unknown, and the anesthesiologist is there to develop a positive, reassuring relationship, and then use the best medical techniques to give a great anesthetic. This way, the patient can focus on a speedy comfortable recovery and enjoy the results of his or her plastic surgery.

Dr. Einstein is a swimming fanatic, who works out every morning, even on weekends, with the local masters swimming club. Dr. Einstein was born in Switzerland, and is fluent in German, Spanish, French and English.

Please read the full profile of Dr. Einstein at Vitals.com

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September 6th, 2009

Pregnant Women will wait for Epidurals with National Healthcare

Irving

Dr. Ronald Dworkin is an anesthesiologist at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Dr. Dworkin has authored the book  Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class. His essays on religion, medical science, and healthcare have appeared in The Weekly Standard, Commentary, Public Interest, and Policy Reviews.

Dr. Dworkin has uncovered a desire to skimp on anesthesia in the healthcare bill that Congress’s is proposing. On one of the health-care bills in Congress, H.R. 3200, the public option would reduce reimbursement for anesthesia by over 50%.

Dr. Ronald Dworkin (mentalhelp.net)

Dr. Ronald Dworkin (mentalhelp.net)

There is an old adage: You can skimp on some medicine, but you can’t skimp on obstetrics or anesthesiology. An elderly surgeon explained it to me this way, “In surgery, people die in days and weeks—a doctor has time to fix a mistake. But in obstetrics and anesthesiology, they die in minutes and seconds.”

Quality of anesthesiology care will inevitably decline. A woman in labor should not wait much more than five minutes for her epidural.  During an obstetrical emergency, a short-staffed anesthesia departments will scramble to send someone to perform the C-section. Don’t forget, a baby has only nine minutes of oxygen when the umbilical cord prolapses, so time is of the essence.

 

So we should expect that pregnant women will be waiting a lot longer for epidurals. But more pain on the labor floor is only the beginning. If hospitals delay the administration of anesthesia because Congress skimped, needless deaths will certainly result.

In 1996, he co-founded the Calvert Institute for Policy Research, a Maryland public policy center directed at looking at the entire range of state and local public policy issues. In 1998, he was Ellen Sauerbrey’s senior health policy advisor during her gubernatorial campaign and chairman of her health policy task force. In 2000, Dr. Dworkin joined the Hudson Institute as a senior fellow.

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