Resurrection

Hello everyone,

I am very sorry for being absent for the last few months. I have been busy doing a "gut-rehab" of my life---period which entailed a career change and a residence change.

The Passing Scene Cafe will now be hosted from the Upper West Side, with a sister cafe in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. I am now the Neurosurgery coordinator at Coney Island Hospital. I run a staff of five neurosurgeons and roughly 10 neurosurgical PAs. I truly have the pleasure to work with some incredibly talented and driven individuals, and they have forgotten, or have chosen to to ignore---for the time being---that I really have no qualifications for this job.

BUT!!!!!!! I have always wanted to be on the front lines in the health care system. Sitting on my cozy perch, reading journals and magazines, and ranting against politicians who don't know the slightest thing about consumers and producers is one thing. Now I get to put my ideas where my mouth is...or stethoscope is....or....you get the idea.

Anyways, I am excited to start writing again. I will try my hardest to be not as one-dimensional as I was during the spring, i.e. focusing too much on politics, because I have had the fortune and misfortune of dealing with some pretty interesting questions in my brief time here. I will try to write about them whenever I can.

In the meantime, I keep both a tumblr page and a twitter page. Please visit and comment!!!

Good to be back!