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Dr. Lawrence Levitt is Senior Consultant in Neurology Emeritus at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown,Pa. He founded the neurology division at that hospital and co-led the successful effort to transform it into the largest teaching hospital in Pennsylvania. He is Professor of Clinical Medicine (Neurology) at Penn State College of Medicine. A graduate of Queens College, he attended Cornell University Medical College as a Jonas Salk Scholar. Dr. Levitt did his internship and first year medical residency at the Cornell Division of Bellevue Hospital. He trained in neurology at the Harvard teaching hospitals of the Longwood Area Neurology Program. He is co-author of Neurology, one of America’s most popular neurology texts published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The book is now in its seventh edition, and translated into eight foreign languages including Russian, Chinese and Japanese.
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The Man with the Iron Tattoo and Other True Tales of Uncommon Wisdom
by Dr. John Castaldo and Dr. Lawrence Levitt
The Man with the Iron Tattoo and Other True Tales of Uncommon Wisdom is a highly personal account of 13 medical cases by two doctors who were profoundly changed by the patients they treated. In these first-person stories, we follow Drs. Castaldo and Levitt as eager young medical students, as colleagues and mentors, and, especially, as physicians who care for patients with life-threatening diseases. Throughout, the book reveals the “uncommon wisdom” these doctors learn from their patients in the realms of love, faith, forgiveness and healing.
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