~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This message is from PedTalk! To reply to the group, use "" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I finally got a copy of the referenced letter and Dan gave me permission to post it here (since I brought the whole thing up in the first place). Michael Sachs ------------------------ >From: Michael Sachs [SMTP:] >>>"Are you the Daniel Nussbaum II whose letter about "Pediatric Families" was >>>published in the October issue (which conveniently arrived on November 3) >>>of AAP News ?" --------------------- >>At 07:54 PM 11/8/97 -0500, wrote: >>Guilty as charged. >> >>Dan Nussbaum --------------------- > > >Guilty? It was a fascinating letter. > >Michael Sachs, M.D. --------------------- At 06:37 PM 11/9/97 -0500, Al & Diane Solderitsch wrote: >Could we get a copy of the letter posted here to Pedtalk? > -Diane, CNP > ------------------------------------------ Here is the text of the letter (and a brier introduction) by Daniel Nussbaum, M.D.: (Recently the News of the American Academy of Pediatrics published an article about parent child pairs of Pediatricians. I wrote them the following letter which they published.) I enjoyed your article on pediatric families very much. However, I wonder why you do not mention extended families that have a lot of pediatricians, such as the descendants of my great grandparents Pes.ha Kaszkiet and Israel Bendersky. Their oldest daughter was Ne.hama. She married Dov Teplitzky. When Ne.hama and Dov decided they had had it with Communism and left for the United States one daughter, Raisia, stayed in the Soviet Union and became a pediatrician. Two of Dov's daughters who came to the states had sons who are currently pediatricians, my first cousin Leon Charash, a prominent pediatric neurologist on Long Island in New York and myself. For reasons of modesty, I will not describe myself further. Israel and Pes.ha's next daughter, Shifra married Pes.ha's brother Samuel. For unknown reasons, Samuel and Shifra went east when the rest of the family went west. They wound up in Tashkent, Uzbekhistan. Their daughter, Miriam, became a pediatrician there. None of Miriam's children went into medicine, but two of her granddaughters also became pediatricians in Tashkent. One, Evgenia Ratner, just finished her American residency and is beginning a pediatric practice in Putnam Valley, New York. Her sister, Victoria Ratner is beginning a residency at Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey. Pes.ha and Israel also had sons. Only one, Aaron, had any children. Aaron's great granddaughter Michelle Bender is also beginning a pediatric practice in Summit, New Jersey. Seven pediatricians in three generations. Is that worthy of note? Incidentally the pediatricians in Tashkent knew nothing about the American pediatricians.