Background
Hellerstein, David Joel was born on December 30, 1953 in Cleveland. Son of Herman Kopel and Mary Leah (Feil) Hellerstein.
(A comic first novel by an author known for his powerful a...)
A comic first novel by an author known for his powerful and moving accounts of medical training, Loving Touches is set in contemporary New York. The story explores the love Dr. Jay feels for two very different women: his wife Sarah, a Wall Street lawyer, and Celine Walters, a former girlfriend who has been admitted to the hospital where he works.
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(Originally published in 1986, Battles of Life and Death i...)
Originally published in 1986, Battles of Life and Death is a collection of thirteen essays by David Hellerstein, an award-winning doctor-writer. These compelling and intimate tales describe the making of a young doctor amid the peril and promise of today’s medicine. From the searing pain of an injured firefighter on the burn unit, to the bravery of children undergoing kidney transplants, to the death of an elderly woman at a hospital overlooking Manhattan's East River, to the chaos of the psychiatric emergency room, these stories are dramatic, moving and true. First published in Esquire, Ms., and North American Review, they include the award-winning “A Death in the Glitter Palace,” about a young cancer patient, and the often-republished story, “Touching,” about the gynecology clinic. Richard Selzer, MD, author of Rituals of Surgery and other books, wrote: "Battles of Life and Death is a wonderful book. The excitement, anguish, and joy of attending the sick are fully transmitted." And Tobias Wolff, in the original Houghton Mifflin edition, wrote: "Battles of Life and Death is a unique, beautifully written account of the making of a doctor."
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Hellerstein, David Joel was born on December 30, 1953 in Cleveland. Son of Herman Kopel and Mary Leah (Feil) Hellerstein.
AB, Harvard University, 1976; Doctor of Medicine, Stanford University, 1980.
Intern, then resident psychiatry, New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, 1980-1984; fellow public psychiatry, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center-New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City, 1984-1985; attending psychiatrist, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City, since 1985; instructor psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City, 1985-1988; assistant professor psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City, 1988-1993; physician in charge psychiatric outpatient services, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City, 1989-1996; chief outpatient psychiatry division, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City, since 1996; assistant professor psychiatry, Albert Einstein College Medicine, New York City, 1993-1996; associate professor psychiatry, Albert Einstein College Medicine, New York City, since 1996.
(A comic first novel by an author known for his powerful a...)
(Originally published in 1986, Battles of Life and Death i...)
Fellow APA; member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, American Psychiatric Association (editor New York County District newsletter, since 1989. Chairman publications committee New York County chapter since 1989, president-elect since 1997), Author's Guild.
Married Lisa Perry, October 16, 1983. Children: Sarah Nicole, Benjamin, Jason Samuel.