Brooklyn Transplant
Stephen A. Geller is a nationally and internationally known pathologist with special interest in liver diseases, the autopsy and medical history. He is chairman emeritus of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he spent 28 years, and has taught pathology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, at UCLA and at Weill-Cornell in New York. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he now lives in Manhattan with his wife, Kate. In addition to hundreds of scientific articles, book chapters and two pathology textbooks ("Histopathology" and "Biopsy Interpretation of the Liver" in its second edition) his first novel, "A Little Piece of Me," was published in 2014. He has had 6 short stories published. He is currently completing other novels and short stories.
April 27, 2017 at 10:40 am
a wonderful read. thanks.
April 27, 2017 at 1:13 pm
Fran,
Thank you so much. I hope you are all well and thriving and that Spring has arrived in Iowa.
Best wishes.
April 29, 2017 at 11:15 am
April 28 was my birthday and I was also 78 years old. It’s hard to believe. When we were in junior high that seemed ancient. I thought of wrinkled faces and wrinkled stockings. Despite the wrinkles I don’t feel old. My mind though more hazy is still going strong. I take classes, write poetry and memoir and walk every day. My stockings, when I wear them, are not wrinkled.
April 27, 2017 at 12:00 pm
Thanks for the smiles and food for thought. Your grandmother was correct—you are a prince.
Max
April 27, 2017 at 12:03 pm
Steve, I wish you many more good birthdays and I cant imagine anyone wanting to opt out of receiving your musings. As a Brooklyn boy myself,I share many of your core beliefs and experiences. Do you remember where on Church Avenue your Bubba’s candy store was? My first 17 years were lived on the corner of Rockaway Parkway and Church.
My best to you and your wonderful Kate
April 27, 2017 at 1:12 pm
Gil,
Very glad to hear from you. The store was at 324 Church Avenue, between E. 3rd and 4th Streets, far from Rockaway Avenue.
April 28, 2017 at 4:32 am
Matisse and Diebenkorn at the SF MOMA is a must see! Next time you are in San Francisco, David and I can get you into the museum as our guests. (We’re members and are allowed one guest each.) Just let us know.
Thanks for reminding me about the Monet exhibit. I want to see it before it closes. I, too, fondly remember Giverny and the many Monet paintings at various museums in Paris.
In 2000 or 2001, when our children were in elementary school, we took them to a Peter, Paul, and Mary concert. I thought it was so sad that no other children seemed to be in attendance (at least none that I saw). Not counting our children, David and I were among the youngest by far. Now, I’m probably the same age as many of that concert’s attendees, but they are 15+ years older, too.
Best wishes for many more healthy, fun-filled birthdays. Please give my regards to Kate.
Karen
April 28, 2017 at 7:09 am
Steven – you have become a ‘poster child’ for aging gracefully and with positive impact. My wishes that you may continue on with your ‘adventures’ for a long time to come.
April 28, 2017 at 4:51 pm
Sounds like you had a good birthday and ww wish you many more happy ones.
Love,
Phyllis and Herbie
April 29, 2017 at 12:50 pm
Reading your birthday musings was very emotional for me —– a combination of tears of admiration for you, and my own remembrances reinvoked about family, resiliency of parents and grandparents, and, of course, the other great event in 1939, Barbara Kurnit nee Moldow was born. I’ve known you a long, long time. You and Kate have never changed, you’ve only graced our world and our lives. Happy, Happy Birthday!
Phil
April 29, 2017 at 1:14 pm
Thank you. We all miss Barbara so much – not as much as you, but still quite a lot.
February 22, 2018 at 8:39 pm
Great musing, beautifully expressed and written. Thanks for sharing. Wish you a cornucopia of joy, good health and blessings. Can’t wait to read those short stories and two upcoming novels. Like you I have been chagrined by the disfavor that has befallen medical autopsies, coming largely on the heels of the removal of a mandated autopsy rate in hospitals as a standard by the JCAHO.
Happy birthday!