Tag Physician

19 Dec

International Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Hadassah Psychiatrist

The International Society for Affective Disorders (ISAD) has honoured the Hadassah Medical Centre’s pioneering psychiatrist Prof. Bernard Lerer with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. Prof. Lerer, 71, was born in South Africa and moved to Israel as a young physician. He entered the field of psychiatry just after the revolutionary anti-psychotic and anti-depressant drugs like […]

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5 Aug

Thanks to Hadassah Physicians, Toddler with Blocked Oesophagus now Enjoys Solid Food

Two-and-a-half-year-old Yanki Leib Shetland had never eaten a carrot or a potato chip. He was subsisting on baby formula, chocolate milk, and porridge. It was no wonder he was so small and underdeveloped. When his desperate parents brought Yanki to the Paediatric Gastroenterology department at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, he managed to surprise even the […]

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