MARK LEIBO, M.D.

Reunions allow us to indulge in a bit of nostalgia.  I recall the old Bellevue clinicians who were our teachers and exemplars (e.g. Herman – psychiatry, Vogl – medicine, Bender – neurology, Jacobson – radiology, Leider – dermatology).

That breed of cat is no longer a prominent part of the medical landscape and our profession is poorer for it. In 2007 my paper, “Classical Psychiatry, Literary Sensibility and the Art of Medicine,” was published in Academic Psychiatry. 

I’m an old cardiac (quintuple bypass in 2001) still playing singles and doubles tennis (no chance of getting an invitation to Wimbledon) but sometimes feeling my chief aim now (going into the ‘bottom of the eighth’ decade) is to avoid discomfort as much as possible.