SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL
Managed Care and the
Elusive Wad Of Cash
AFTER
getting an award from the American Committee for Shaare Zedek Jerusalem
Medical Center at its 44th annual dinner at the Sheraton New
York, Dr. Ronnie Hershman credited his mother for his success.
A cardiologist at St. Francis
Hospital, Hershman said his mother pushed that he should become a doctor.
“Actually, she let me choose my
direction. She let me be any kind of doctor I wanted.
“Maybe she was influenced by
the doctor she used to see. Every time she left his office, he had a
bigger wad of cash.
“Before managed care, I too had
a thick wad of cash in my pocket.”
New York board chairman Michael
Strauss also presented awards to Rebbetzin Ruth Swift as well
as Faith and Ricky Schwartz.
Swift lives in Englewood, N.J.,
where her late husband, Rabbi Isaac L.
Swift, was spiritual leader of Cong. Ahavath Torah for a
quarter century. Rebbetzin Swift and the late Rabbi Leo Jung helped
form the hospital’s American Committee in 1949.
Ricky Schwartz is a partner in
Advance Underwriting Services, based in Hewlett, NY, a diversified
insurance brokerage and investment advisory form. Faith teaches at the
Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway where her five children
attend.
Attorney Harry First, a
guest at, told me how a fellow went to the racetrack in hopes of winning a
wad of cash.
He watched as a man was praying
next to his horse. The fellow decided to bet on that horse. The horse lost
and the man complained to the owner of the horse.
“If
you’d go to shul,” the owner said, “you’d know I was saying
Kaddish over that horse.”
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