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Blessed with Good Care
Dear Readers,
Ten years ago, I had a catastrophic medical event while playing basketball. Yes, I real-
ize that 50-year-old Jewish guys should realize they have no NBA potential. I was rushed to
Scott
P uRbilfiskhienr, MD Sinai Hospital, where I received amazing emergency care. I am alive because of the quality
of that response.
BAfter the emergency, I found out that while there were only a handful of specialists
that focused on the issue, one was a member of the University of Maryland School of Med-
icine faculty. I have received world-class care at the University of Maryland Medical Center
for the past decade.
We tend to take for granted the level of medical care available in Baltimore. Many
U.S. communities lack access to basic primary care services and emergency care.
In Baltimore, with two nationally ranked medical schools and several high-quality
regional systems, we are blessed with accessible, expert-driven health services. The Uni-
versity of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) and Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM), with their
associated medical schools, produce a constant stream of highly trained, academically
based physicians and support staff. These institutions attract world-class experts in both
broad and narrow areas of medicine. St. Joseph (UMMS) and Bayview (JHM) are commu-
nity hospitals that take great advantage of their access to the large university systems and
their services.
LifeBridge, Mercy and MedStar are also very high-quality systems as well. LifeBridge,
with Sinai and Northwest hospitals, serves a huge population in northwest Baltimore and
Baltimore County. MedStar operates Union Memorial and Good Samaritan, serving many
city residents. Many of their physicians come from the two local medical schools — par-
ticularly from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. These systems bring strong,
hands-on care to many Baltimoreans in the city and the suburbs. Mercy Medical Center, in
downtown Baltimore, has carved out a niche in women’s health and orthopedics.
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Army in France and Germany in 1946 and 1947, first recognized the life-saving outcomes of
fast interventional care for trauma patients. With the support of the Maryland government
and with State Sen. Frank Kelly as a champion, the center became the international leader
in caring for trauma patients. This doesn’t exist everywhere.
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writes about cutting-edge efforts at local systems, while Alan Feiler presents the University
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ty topics including The Associated’s new fundraising chair, Steven Fader, and the failure of
Hungary to ever make reparations for the slaughter of the country’s Jews in the Holocaust.
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When Jews Go Wrong
I’ll admit it. When first hearing on the evening of Aug. 26 that a gunman from Balti-
more murdered two young people and wounded 10 others before killing himself at a video
game tournament in Jacksonville, Fla., one of my initial thoughts was, “I wonder if he was a
member of the tribe.”
Alan Feiler Then, I heard his name was David Bennett Katz and had my answer. Call it an oc-
Editor-in-Chief cupational hazard when you work in the Jewish media. Virtually anytime you hear about
Wanything, you wonder if the individual involved is Jewish.
Does it matter that David Katz was Jewish? Not really. Jewish values played no part
in this unspeakable tragedy. Katz reportedly was dealing with very serious psychiatric and
emotional issues. He could’ve just as easily been Methodist or Hindu.
Yet, as Jews, we have this preoccupation with whether someone in the public eye is
a member of our faith group in some way or another, regardless of if it’s Elvis, Paul Ryan
or Dustin Hoffman. (Answers: his maternal great-grandmother, 3 percent and very much
so.) Maybe this comes from the angst and insecurity of being one of the most persecuted
groups in history. Or maybe it’s just a case of co-religionist curiosity.
But I think a lot of it may derive from plain and simple hubris when it comes to Jews
who’ve done something illegal, violent or unethical. There’s always “the Shande Factor.” I
ran into this several years ago when I wrote a series of articles about my old high school
classmate Steven H. Oken.
Oken was a fairly typical Jewish kid from Northwest Baltimore. Good, loving family,
went to Hebrew school and became a bar mitzvah at a nice shul. Worked in the family busi-
ness. But he descended into a life of hard drugs and marital woes, and inexplicably went
on a three-week killing spree in late 1987. He wound up on Death Row, and in 2004 became
the first Jew executed by the state of Maryland.
When I wrote my series, I got slammed by certain factions of the Jewish communi-
ty for bringing the matter to light. I wasn’t surprised because, after all, the conventional
wisdom tends to be Jews don’t do that kind of thing. It seems we’ve bought into our own
publicity that we only become doctors and accountants, and don’t fall prey to society’s
vices or have psychiatric issues or homicidal urges. In other words, that we don’t have the
same problems and ills as the rest of the population, that somehow we’re above it.
But what really intrigued me was the length to which some readers went to find
loopholes in the Oken matter. For example, when reading in my original article that he was
adopted (at 3 days old) by his Jewish family, a few individuals called me and said, “Well,
you said he’s Jewish, but he really isn’t! He wasn’t born Jewish!” The guy was brought up in a
Jewish household and grew up in a Jewish community. He was Jewish, period.
I’m certain there’s been talk in some segments of the community about David Katz’s
Jewishness, and curiosity about how a young Jewish man could’ve committed such an
atrocity out of the blue. Maybe it’s human nature. But coming at it with the attitude of
“Well, we don’t do that sort of thing” is simply head-in-the-sand parochialism and elitism
that all of us, myself included, need to outgrow already.
Sincerely,
Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief
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