What it’s like to practice medicine when your patient is the gadol hador
When Dr. Alan Weiss, a cardiologist from St. Louis, Missouri, was first introduced to Rav Elazar Menachem Man Shach over 20 years ago, he was a recent baal teshuvah who knew nothing about the gadol until a friend offered to bring him for a brachah.
“I walked in and thought, ‘This man is in his 90s, how can he remember anything?’ ” recalls Dr. Weiss.
Rav Shach looked at him with a twinkle in his eye and said, “Maybe the doctor has something for my memory?”
That exchange sparked a decade-long relationship between the gadol and the doctor, replete with countless demonstrations of warmth and attention that Dr. Weiss still treasures.
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