Education
After graduating high school she graduated Barnard College.
After graduating high school she graduated Barnard College.
Along with Doctor Alvin Friedman-Kien, she published the first article linking Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome with Kaposi"s sarcoma. A childhood bout of polio left Laubenstein paraplegic and using a wheelchair. She then received her Doctor of Medicine from the New York University Medical School, where she became a clinical professor
A specialist in hematology and oncology, and clinical professor at the New York University Medical Center she was one of the first in the United States to recognize the appearance of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic and was author (with Doctor Alvin Friedman-Kien) of the first published article on the related appearance of Kaposi"s sarcoma.
Despite her handicap, she would meet patients in the emergency room in the middle of the night and even made house calls, using her motorized wheelchair and public buses. "She was sicker than most of her patients but didn't let it stop her," Greene said.
With Freidman-Kien she arranged the first full-scale medical conference on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, at New York University in 1983 and helped found the Kaposi"s Sarcoma Research Fund in 1983. Outspoken about what she said was the neglect by government and society in fighting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, some of her views were controversial among gay groups, particularly the belief that bathhouses should be shut down to discourage unsafe sexual
Larry Kramer"s play The Normal Heart features a wheelchair-using medical doctor, Emma Brookner, who is based on Laubenstein, according to a leaflet Kramer distributed after Broadway 2011 performances of the play.
lieutenant said that the character of Emma Brookner was based on Doctor Linda Laubenstein, who "died after a return bout of polio and another trip to an iron lung." lieutenant was made into a 2014 American drama television film also written by Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart, directed by Ryan Murphy. Julia Roberts appeared as Doctor Emma Brookner.
Quotations: "She was sicker than most of her patients but didn't let it stop her,".