What's Up Doc?
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WHAT´S UP, DOC? is a series of essays in which DR. DAVID P. KALIN, M.D., M.P.H., answers common questions asked of him with regard to health and medicine during his many years as a family physician. Illustrations combined with these essays extend a broader sense of appreciation not only to the doctor and his relationship with the patient but also of the doctor´s own creative effort and striving for as sense of balance and expression in life.
August 21, 2004
Book Review - Stephen Z. Smith, M.D.
WHAT’S UP, DOC?
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An unusual book with an uncommon style, this tight little work of 100 or so pages should be consumed by the medically naïve. With thirteen small chapters lighted with frequent bold printing, hand drawn sketches and pithy one liners, this reading favors the quick learn rather than the plodder. Offered as a conversation rather than a lecture, this information has the qualities of attachment and relevance rather than being pedantic. Some questions could be anticipated such as cholesterol numbers, vasectomy side effects, STD’s and the like. Other chapters are more sensational in title, like “What’s With Those Chinese Balls?” Yet these headliners really belie very useful if not folksy descriptions. Probably few physicians will read this without some prodding, but this report stands as one physician telling others to read and remember that direct language registers with patients. Not all of us are comfortable with this brotherly relating to patients, but learning some holistic and other non traditional medicine should be helpful. For a modest price and easy wording, this book can be accepted as worthy for patient consumption.
About the Author
Dr. David P. Kalin, M.D., M.P.H., a family doctor with a background in Emergency Medicine, specializing in Disability Evaluation, is married with six children of whom three are stepchildren and lives in Florida's Tampa Bay area. Dr. Kalin graduated from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Schools of Medicine and Public Health, attended classes at Chicago's Art Institute and has been active in the Jewish community as a mohel and past president of the local B'nai Brith. Dr. Kalin also has been featured on several local television program's including one he helped to develop, entitled "B'nai Brith Presents Jewish Life in Tampa Bay", in a column of Tampa Bay Magazine entitled "What's Up Doc?" and a nationally shown infomercial on the merits of using the Chinese Energy Balls. Dr. Kalin enjoys playing music including classical guitar and piano, singing, drawing, sculpture, swimming, sailing, ice skating, writing and family and has traveled extensively through Mexico and Latin America where he learned to speak Spanish and most recently volunteered at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel.