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Ruth Furman is a Midwestern transplant who since 1999 has made Las Vegas home. Furman owns ImageWords, a marketing communications and public relations firm specializing in social and traditional media outreach. She enjoys travel, supporting independent retailers and theater. Spending the early part of her career as a journalist she now combines her public relations expertise and a passion for volunteering in her efforts on behalf of a number of organizations.

Jaq Greenspon is a noted local journalist, screenwriter and author with credits on The New Adventures of Robin Hood and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

He also is a literary and movie critic, has taught and written about fi lmmaking but is most proud of his role in the fi lm, Lotto Love. A Vegas resident for most of his life, his native language is Hebrew, but he doesn’t speak it anymore.

Marilyn LaRocque is Contributing Editor for Gastronomique en Vogue and former Senior Food and Wine Editor for LUXURY Las Vegas.

She’s traveled extensively around the world, visiting great wine regions and enjoying fantastic food.

She’s also Vice Chargée de Presse Nationale des Etats Unis for Chaîne des Rôtisseurs USA.

Brian Sodoma has been writing professionally since 1998. He has called Las Vegas home since 2002, and enjoys covering the city’s business issues, real estate, health, sports ... anything that isn’t fashion. Sodoma currently is working on a feature-length screenplay about Las Vegas real estate meltdown with local fi lm director Roger Tinch. When he’s not hunting for new story ideas, Sodoma dabbles in real estate, coaches youth soccer and plays ice hockey.

Pat Teague has been a practicing journalist, manager and editor for international and regional wire services, and has worked for several metropolitan daily newspapers. He also has worked for one of the world’s largest corporations and was one of five Southern Californians in the Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists honored in 2000 for career achievement.

Lynn WexlerMargolies has been a feature writer and contributor for magazines and newspapers, locally and nationally, for over 20 years. She writes a monthly online column entitled Manners in the News, which comments on the behavior of politicians, celebrities and others thrust in the public arena.

She is the Founder and President of Perfectly Poised, a school of manners that teaches social, personal and business etiquette to young people.

She is a former TV Reporter and News Anchor.

Of her many accomplishments, she is most proud of her three outstanding teenaged children.

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We salute all those who defy the odds: individuals and organizations that confront life’s intractable challenges with curiosity and determination. They inspire the editorial of this issue. The theme of this month’s magazine, “Medical Mavens,” just as easily could be “Medical Marvels” or “Life Mavens.” For what our subjects do not only enhances our health and well being, but also challenges paradigms of life’s limitations.

Michele Rothstein lost a ton of weight, and discovered a new vitality in the process. It is hard not to be impressed with her joie de vivre as she opines on the myriad organizations and causes that she volunteers for.

As she rehabilitates herself, she consciously engages in Tikun Olam, the healing of the world. Brava!

As a crown jewel in Las Vegas philanthropy, AFAN battles ignorance and apathy. HIV/AIDS research and treatment have lost some of the attention they once garnered, but the annual Black and White Party and other events are designed to refocus attention and raise funds for AFAN activities. We encourage our readers to support this great cause. See you all at the party.

Israel has a closed border with its neighbors to the north. In 1948, upon the founding of the Jewish State, Syria declared war and hostilities have continued up to this day. Syria has actively supported Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, organizations that are both dedicated to the destruction of Israel. In this context, it is amazing that Israeli hospitals are accepting and treating Syrian civil war victims. Israeli ambulance crews daily risk body and soul, ignoring border fence restrictions, as they rush into the heart of the melee to triage their sworn enemies.

A healthy debate raged among the staff at DAVID over the strong language in the title of our cancer treatment story. We understand that our publication enjoys a readership of all age demographics, and that expletives are generally unsuitable for our younger readers. We are truly sorry if this causes any quarter grief.

We believe that strong language is appropriate, given the subject matter. “FU Cancer” is an apt battle cry for those in the trenches – the physicians, patients and families engaged in a mortal struggle against an unrelenting and unmerciful foe.

The field of prosthetics has come a long way since the barbarous years of the War Between the States. It is a bitter irony, perhaps, that it often takes the carnage of military conflict to advance the quality of civilian life. Had James Hanger not had his leg blown off as a member of the Confederate forces, the company bearing his name would not have been founded, and I would not have been assisted by a sure-footed Chris Lane, yes, in the Costco checkout lane. Having been a customer at that store for years, last month was the first time I noticed that he sported a sexy piece of technology below one knee.

Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, would be so proud.

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Our August Baby of the Month.

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Photographer: Meghan Poort

Samantha's Story

Samantha’s parents found out a few years ago that Mom has a single gene defect, and knowing this, they wanted to make sure they did not pass this on to their baby. So they needed to do in vitro fertilization (IVF) with Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. This beautiful bundle is healthy and disease-free thanks to that procedure. It just goes to show you how amazing our technology is today. It really makes you smile knowing you were able to ensure a healthy baby due to a simple genetic test on the embryo and IVF procedure. Congratulations to Samantha, our August Baby of the Month!

Red Rock Fertility Center is Nevada’s 1st and only boutique-styled center specializing in personalized physician care and expertise in an intimate, cozy setting.

Giving the gift of life all year long...

We are proud to announce the opening of our 2nd location and our new team member Shannon McGrath!

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DIXIE'S TUPPERWARE PARTY: Through Aug. 4, times vary, $33+. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-7492000. thesmithcenter.com THE FLAMING LIPS: 8:30 p.m., $39.50-$59.50.

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August 1 CHILDREN’S SUMMER SERIES OFFERS UNDERSEA ADVENTURE, MUSIC & MARIONETTES - THE DRAGON KING: 10:30 a.m., $3. Historic Fifth Street School, 401 South Fourth Street, Las Vegas. 702-2296383. artslasvegas.org JOURNEY OF THE HEART BY JANE ASARI: Through Sept. 22, Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. & Fri.-Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., free. Windmill Library, 7060 West Windmill Lane, Las Vegas.

702-507-6030. lvccld.org ABBY ROBINSON - BODY IMAGING: Through Aug. 18, free, Weds.-Sun. 6-11 p.m.

Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas.

702-698-7000. cosmopolitanlasvegas.com ANDREW DICE CLAY: Varying dates through Aug. 31, 9 p.m., $54. Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Road, Las Vegas. 702-693-5000. hardrockhotel.com MOVIES IN THE SQUARE - OVER THE HEDGE: Sundown, free. Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-269-5000. mytownsquarelasvegas.com EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS: 9 p.m., $30. Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. cosmopolitanlasvegas.com

SETH MEYERS: 10 p.m., $45.99-$65.99.

Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas.

702-792-7777. mirage.com THE DIRTY HEADS WITH THE EXPENDABLES: 9 p.m., $32.50. Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Road, Las Vegas. 702693-5000. hardrockhotel.com UNDER THE STREETLAMP: Through Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m., $15.95. Suncoast, 9090 Alta Drive, Las Vegas. 702-636-7075. suncoastcasino.com RICK SPRINGFIELD: Through Aug. 4, 8 p.m., $49.95. Orleans, 4500 West Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-365-7075. orleanscasino.com BRUNO MARS: 8 p.m., $46.05-$171.70.

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AFFIRMATIONS OF A GENERATION UNPLUGGED #D - A PVAC’S MUSICAL PRODUCTION: 1 p.m., free. Clark County Library, 1401 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas.

702-507-3459. lvccld.org MOVIES IN THE SQUARE - RANGO: Sundown, free. Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-269-5000. mytownsquarelasvegas.com WARD 2 BACK-TO-SCHOOL FAIR AND MOVIE IN THE PARK: 6:30 p.m., free. AnSan Sister City Park, 7801 Ducharme Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-229-6993. artslasvegas.org

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MOB MONTH SUMMER EDITION - THE GREATEST MOB MOVIES OF ALL TIME: 2 p.m., free. Clark County Library, 1401 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. 702-507-3459. lvccld.org

DIVE-IN MOVIES - WHEN HARRY MET SALLY & MY FAIR LADY: 7:30 & 10 p.m., free.

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT THE BIJOU SUMMER STORIES: Tuesdays through Aug. 27, 1 p.m., free. Clark County Library, 1401 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. 702-5073459. lvccld.org NATIONAL NIGHT OUT: 5 p.m., free. Town Square Las Vegas, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702269-5000. mytownsquarelasvegas.com OPTICAL FUSION BY BILL & ROSE GLASS: Through Oct. 1, free, Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. & Fri.-Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Summerlin Library, 1771 Inner Circle Drive, Las Vegas.

702-507-3860. lvccld.org CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART - ART OF ADORNMENT: 11 a.m., free. Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, 888 West Bonneville Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-483-6055. http:// my.clevelandclinic.org/neurological_institute/ lou-ruvo-brain-health/default.aspx

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DIVE-IN MOVIES - THE LITTLE RASCALS & TOMMY BOY: 7:30 & 10 p.m., free.

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MT. CHARLESTON ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW: Through Aug. 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free. Resort at Mt. Charleston, 2755 Kyle Canyon Road, Las Vegas. artslasvegas.org

NATIONAL CLEAN ENERGY SUMMIT 6.0 - ENERGIZING TOMORROW: 9 a.m., $25-$200. Mandalay Bay, 3050 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-632-7777. cleanenergysummit.org

LOST 80S - A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS & MORE: 9 p.m., $35. Mandalay Bay Beach, 3960 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-632-7777. mandalaybay.com

AN EVENING WITH WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY: 7:30 p.m., $29+. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702749-2000. thesmithcenter.com

COYOTE COUNTRYFEST: 6:30 p.m., $15-$65.

Orleans, 4500 West Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-365-7111. orleanscasino.com JONAS BROTHERS: 7 p.m., $39.50-$79.50.

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JEWEL AUGUST HAPPY HOUR: 7 p.m., $10. Poppy Den @ Tivoli Village, 440 South Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas. For more information, call Marni at 732-0556. jewishlasvegas.com

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ART & WINE - A PERFECT PAIRING: 5 p.m., $30-$38. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-693-7871. bellagio.com CHRIS ISAAK TOUR 2013: 7:30 p.m., $29+. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2000. thesmithcenter.com

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LOCAL MUSIC SHOWCASE: 9 p.m., $5. Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-698-7900. cosmopolitanlasvegas.com MOVIES IN THE SQUARE: MADAGASCAR 3: Sundown, free. Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-269-5000. mytownsquarelasvegas.com EXHIBITION OF GEOMETRICAL ART BY CLIFFORD SINGER: Through Oct. 15, free, Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. & Fri.-Sun. 10 a.m.6 p.m. Enterprise Library, 25 East Shelbourne Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-507-3760. lvccld.org

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Orleans, 4500 West Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-365-7075. orleanscasino.com BROADWAY BOUND PRESENTS HELLO DOLLY!: Through Aug. 24, 7 p.m. & 1 p.m., $15. Summerlin Library, 1771 Inner Circle Drive, Las Vegas. 702-838-5131. broadwayboundlv.com OUTDOOR PICTURE SHOW - ALICE IN WONDERLAND & THE GOONIES: Through Aug. 17, 8 p.m., free. The District, 2225 Village Walk Drive, Henderson. 702-6548595. shopthedistrictgvr.com

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JEWISH GENEOLOGY SOCIETY: Ask the Experts Panel. Sahara West Library, 9600 West Sahara Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-523-9874. jgssn.org

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RED HOT ROMANCE WRITERS GALORE!: 7 p.m., free. Clark County Library, 1401 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. 702-507-3459. lvccld.org CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART - AFRICAN ART: SECULAR & SUPERNATURAL: 11 a.m., free. Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, 888 West Bonneville Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-483-6055. my.clevelandclinic. org/neurological.../lou-ruvo-brain-health/ default.aspx

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BELLAGIO MASTER SOMMELIER - PAIR FOOD & WINE LIKE AN EXPERT: 6 p.m., $80$200. Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-693-7111. bellagio.com

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COLD WAR KIDS: 9 p.m., $20. Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-6987000. cosmopolitanlasvegas.com AN EVENING WITH LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND: 7:30 p.m., $29+. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2000. thesmithcenter.com RALPHIE MAY: Through Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m., $40. South Point Hotel, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-796-7111. southpointcasino.com

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MIDSUMMER LINGERIE MASQUERADE: 9 p.m., $140. Palms, 4321 West Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. 702-942-7777. palms.com SUBLIME WITH ROME: 9 p.m., $49.50.

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BUDDY GUY WITH SPECIAL GUEST QUINN SULLIVAN: 7:30 p.m., $29+. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2000. thesmithcenter.com

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FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT SOUTHWEST BY KENT A. LEFEVRE: Through Oct. 29, free, Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. & Fri.-Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. West Las Vegas Library, 951 West Lake Mead Blvd., Las Vegas.

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BILLY STRITCH SINGS THE MEL TORME SONGBOOK: Through Aug. 24, 7 p.m., $39+. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2000. thesmithcenter.com

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ADAM FERRARA AND WENDY LIEBMAN: Through Aug. 24, 8 p.m., $19.95. Orleans Showroom, 4500 West Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-365-7075. orleanscasino.com OUTDOOR PICTURE SHOW - OZ, THE GREAT AND POWERFUL & THE LORAX: Through Aug. 24, 8 p.m., free. The District, 2225 Village Walk Drive, Henderson. 702654-8595. shopthedistrictgvr.com KID CUDI: 8 p.m., $50. Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. cosmopolitanlasvegas.com DANIEL TOSH: Through Aug. 24, 10 p.m.,

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PAUL REISER: Through Aug. 25, 7:30 p.m., $15.95. Suncoast, 9090 Alta Drive, Las Vegas.

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POLYMER CLAY EXPRESSION - A MEMBERS EXHIBIT: Through Nov. 3, free, Mon.-Thurs.

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This New York Italian restaurant is now open on the Strip. Las Vegas marks its sixth location with others in Manhattan, Atlantic City, Washington D.C. and Atlantis in the Bahamas. This colossal 750-seat eatery spread over 27,000 square feet contains six private dining rooms, so there’s plenty of room to bring the family, heck the entire neighborhood. Michael Ingino, previously of The Beach House in Cardiff by the Sea, California is at the helm. He brings his own twist to Southern Italian classics, promising nine inch high eggplant Parmigiana, and six oversized meatballs over a choice of pasta. When Ingino moved to Vegas, he hooked up with Gustav Mauler at Spiedini, before moving on to Oxo and later, Bull Shrimp at Green Valley Ranch. Carmines at Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas.

702-731-7110. caesarspalace.com

Las Vegas Restaurant Week Want to support Three Square Food Bank while eating an awesome meal or two? With Las Vegas Restaurant Week, you can do both. Restaurants around the valley will be participating, offering prix fixe selections ranging from $20.13 to $50.13.

A list of restaurants is available online. Diners are encouraged to use their social media to spread the word about the terrific restaurants and let others know how great Three Square Food Bank is to the Las Vegas area. Each restaurant will create its own unique menu and determine what portion of the proceeds to donate. To get involved socially, visit http://on.fb.me/lvrwfb. Share your photos via Twitter and Instagram, by following Three Square at @threesquarelv and using the hashtags #LVRW2013 and #helpoutdineoutlv. For more information, visit helpoutdineoutlv.org.

Nitrogen Cocktails @ Sugar Factory

In addition to their tableside cocktail cart, guests should consider ordering nitrogen infused drinks. This process turns your cocktail into a slushy dessert. Drink it quickly or it will return to its original state. Sugar Factory has put their own spin on favored childhood treats, like the Blow Pop and s’mores. The Blow Pop contains Three Olives Bubble Gum Vodka, DK Apple Pucker, fresh lemon sour, and green apple syrup. S’mores contains Three Olives Chocolate Vodka, Licor 43 Godiva milk chocolate, heavy whipping cream, and toasted marshmallow syrup. Sweet is the name of the game here. Sugar Factory American Brasserie, 3655 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas.

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Greet early autumn with a silk chiffon scarf woven in skull print, finished with rolled hem and “Alexander McQueen” signature. $265.

Barneys New York at The Shoppes at the Palazzo, 3327 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-629-4200.

An emerald green pointed suede court shoe, embellished with golden accents, make the “Roquet” by Ted Baker a true pavement statement. $200. Ted Baker, 1001 S. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-938-9480.

Inspired by Bvlgari’s extraordinary jewelry design, the BV8114 boasts uncompromising quality and brilliant attention to detail. $400. Bvlgari at The Shops at Crystals, 3720 Las Vegas Blvd., S., Las Vegas. 702-583-4747.

Stylish iPhone 5 tech lovers will adore the Halland silicone case by Tory Burch, as it protects their most coveted device and makes it easy to spot with its colorful, geometric green print. $45. Tory Burch at the Shoppes at the Palazzo, 3327 S. Las Vegas Blvd., S. Las Vegas. 702-369-0541.

Tassled baubles are framing the faces of style-setters. Maybe it’s time to set those chandelier earrings aside and opt for a street-savvy whisper of whimsy with these Eddie Borgo earrings. $440. Neiman Marcus at Fashion Show, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd., S, Las Vegas. 702-731-3636.

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A playful and quirky take on a classic French sailor tee, Comme des Garçons’ sportychic separate features its completely endearing signature heart logo, $156. Saks Fifth Avenue at Fashion Show, 3200 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-733-8300.

Rare and green for the season is Hublot’s Boa Bang 18k rose gold time piece, limited to only 250 pieces. $42,300. Hublot Boutique at Forum Shops at Caesars, 3500 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-489-9444.

It’s so unlike the everyday tote with swirls of embossed leather quilting, expandable zippers and all its green grandeur. $450. Henri Bendel Forum Shops at Caesars, 3500 S. Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-893-4800.

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Tivoli Village Playground With several new restaurants and shopping additions, Tivoli Village is bustling. The best addition is for kids – a brand new playground.

Located just outside Pizza Lounge, the new playground features plenty of play equipment for all ages, as well as lots of open space for kids to run around and benches for parents to relax on while watching the kids play. As a bonus this playground is fully enclosed, which makes for a great escape during these dwindling days of summer. It’s also accessible to children of all physical ability levels. Now if they only had child care services, adult time could be had by mom and dad in the other grownup areas of the development, just an idea! Tivoli Village, 440 South Rampart, Las Vegas. 702-570-7400. tivolivillagelv.com

Mnt. Biking @ Brian Head Brian Head, Utah is just three hours from Las Vegas. It is close enough for you to leave on a Friday after work and head home Sunday evening (or Monday morning, if you’re lucky enough to snag a three-day weekend). Not only are the temperatures cooler, there’s plenty to do while you’re there, from hiking to mountain biking to disc golf. Outdoor Action Magazine referred to the area’s biking attractions as the “Downhill of the Gods.” More than 200 combined miles of downhill and cross-country trails for novices, pros and everyone in between – satisfy every pedal pusher’s wildest desire. Need biking advice? Check out the guides and tours available. Visit http://www.utah.com/bike/ for more information.

Floyd Lamb Park Don’t have an entire weekend to get out of town? Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs is just 15 miles from downtown Las Vegas. This lush forest park provides a refreshing respite from the desert’s raging heat. It features picnic and barbecue areas, a pond, hiking trails and more.

Farmers markets, fairs and festivals are held at the park throughout the year, offering fun activities for folks of all ages. A number of historic buildings at the park offer visitors the chance to explore and learn about early Las Vegas. Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs, 9200 Tule Springs Road, Las Vegas. 702-229-8100. http://www. lasvegasnevada.gov/find/21180.htm

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Above: Michele’s daily workout. Right: Prior to weight loss.

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ichele Rothstein makes her living with balloons, a symbol of lightness and fun. She twists the primary-colored tubes into animals, hats and costumes.

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Michele working out with Martin Hinton.

that if I didn’t make a serious change, that I was not going to live past 40.”

Rothstein was motivated to change. And seeing Carnie Wilson, the Wilson Phillips singer who’d famously lost 150 pounds with gastric bypass surgery, supplied the strategy to achieve it. The surgery was risky, but so was morbid obesity. The Roux-en-Y surgery that Rothstein chose was more invasive than the other options, but the procedure provided a higher level of successful weight loss at the time. She was willing to take the risk.

Dr. James D. Atkinson, bariatric medical director of the Surgical Weight Control Center, says many patients who seek gastric bypass surgery have long suffered with the physical and emotional complications of morbid obesity.

“Surgery is not a quick fix because it takes long-term behavior change to be successful,” he said. “The operation allows for the behavior change but does not force the change. Probably the biggest misperception is that it is ‘the easy way out.’ It still takes work after surgery.”

Surgical Weight Control Center even offers free informational seminars. “Since behavior change is paramount to any success, we offer behavior modification classes prior to surgery to best prepare someone for the changes, and we offer ongoing weekly support groups after surgery to continue the lifelong journey that weight loss is for someone severely obese.”

After her surgery, Rothstein’s work was just starting. In the next year, with sugar avoidance and lots of sweat, she’d lose 200 pounds. Instead of binge eating, she binge exercised. Once her weight was below 200

pounds, she started going to 24-Hour Fitness and taking group classes like turbokick boxing and Zumba. She also started running.

“I had never been able to run before, and I found the runner’s high very addicting,” Rothstein says. “I had a goal to run a marathon. I trained by myself, and completed the Las Vegas Marathon in 2007.”

Goal set, goal met. But she wanted more challenges, so a gym friend introduced her to Las Vegas Bootcamp, a five days-a-week outdoor training with pushups, running, situps, burpees and alligator crawls. Rothstein loved it.

“It was exactly what I was looking for,” she says. “I love the trainers and the people who attend bootcamp. We are like a workout family, and help to hold each other accountable with our eating and fitness goals.”

Her next fitness challenges included hiking (she climbed to the summit of Mount Charleston with Las Vegas Bootcamp twice and completed the Grand Loop at Red Rock Canyon), hot Pilates, yoga and kettle bell workouts.

“I love trying new things and always switching up my workouts,” she said. “You have to love what you’re doing, or you’re not going to want to do it.”

Rothstein’s enthusiasm for fitness has inspired and impressed others. Kerry Geyser, co-founder of Las Vegas Bootcamp LLC, has known Rothstein seven years and marvels at her mental strength.

“Not once has she given me any reason to worry about whether she would go back to her old habits and gain the weight she has worked so hard to lose,“ Geyser says. “Quitting is not an option for her … and instead

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of making her health and fitness a chore, she treats it like a gift she gives to herself and it brings great joy to her life. Truly inspirational.”

Martin Hinton of TruFusion Yoga has taught Rothstein and says she’s a powerful, consistent force on and off the mat.

“Michele reminds me that friendliness, tenacity and ‘heart’ work really pays off,” Hinton says “We move energy more than bodies and Michele is like a living embodiment of positive ions. She is a helpful example to others in and out of class and an anchor that I depend on.”

Although exercise had become so central in Rothstein’s life, maintaining her new body would take more than working out.

She’d also have to beat complacency and sugar. Although she avoided sugar after her surgery, evil sweets always lurked somewhere in later years. With a bite of this and a nibble of that, sugar re-entered her life.

“I never realized how addicted I was to sugar until I had some again,” she says. “(I’d) gain five (pounds), lose five. Gain 10, lose 10. But I didn’t ever want to ride that roller coaster again. I knew what I had to do.”

In February 2012, five years after the surgery, she set out to conquer sugar. She decided to give up sugar for 30 days and started a “30-Day No Sugar Challenge” Facebook page to inspire others to join her. It felt so good she decided to keep going. She’s still sugar-free.

Barry Friedman, founder of 30dayssugarfree.com, says Rothstein succeeded because she was emotionally connected to changing.

“She is the first to make a joke about how good ice cream would taste, or how she misses cake,” Friedman says. “Yet day in and day out, she stays on the course that takes her to where she lives.”

Friedman says Rothstein inspires people in person, through live meet-ups, and online, through social networks and their website dedicated to helping others go 30 days sugar-free. Rothstein’s mother, Lilly Ann Rothstein, is proud of her daughter and her effort.

“This was not an easy journey for Michele,” Lilly Ann Rothstein says. “Weightloss camps, dieting and other weight reduction programs were only a temporary fix.

She had to love herself enough to make that final commitment to lose the weight and keep it off. It had to become a way of life.

“Since losing weight and understanding how to stay physically fit, she has found a

passion for reaching out and helping others reach their goals. She has encouraged many people to live a healthy lifestyle. We are proud that she has successfully kept her weight in check and continues to set an example for others through eating healthy and staying physically active.”

Rothstein also enjoys spending time with her dogs, French Fry and Fi’ty Cent, and volunteering for a number of organizations. She gives back to a number of local groups and recently joined the board for Create a Change Now, a Las Vegas nonprofit 501(c 3) organization that is fighting childhood obesity and changing the way families eat by educating and empowering children to make healthier food choices. “I was an obese child, and I wish there would have been an edible garden and an educational program in place when I was in elementary school,” she says.

Helping others on their health and fitness journey is Michele Rothstein’s passion. She loves to see others succeed and reach their goals. She has a Facebook page “Get To Be Fit” that provides motivation, recipes, articles and support. Helping others also helps keep her accountable.

“Every day, I wake up with choices,” Rothstein says. “I can choose to work out and eat healthy, or I can choose not to. I’m grateful for the choices that I get to make, and I try to never take my health for granted. I never want to be that unhealthy girl at 359 pounds ever again.”

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“That doesn’t mean we don’t have casualties,” he says. “There are still people suffering.”

Since the Great Recession took hold, AFAN and other nonprofits have had to do more with less. With the downturn, some self-

sufficient HIV sufferers suddenly were battling unemployment and difficulty in accessing health care. AFAN, which works primarily with poorer HIV and AIDS populations, seeks health care options for its clients, but also assists with housing, if needed. AFAN also works to keep HIV and AIDS patients on top of their treatment schedules and doctor appointments.

“We have to instill a culture of early intervention,” Carrillo says, “as opposed to going to the doctor when you’re already sick.”

Diagnosis can still be a challenge, too. An estimated 20 percent of today’s HIV population in America is not diagnosed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In many situations, Carrillo says, doctors seem to overlook the possibility of a patient having HIV. Often, they test for everything else, based on a patient’s

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socioeconomic situation or sexuality. And the under-diagnoses could have everything to do with the nature of the tests, too, which require an honest evaluation of past sexual behaviors.

“We still don’t feel comfortable talking about sex and addressing sexual behavior,” Carrillo says. “We think that’s very private. I think the real issue is still about shame. It’s a disease that still seems to be assigned to gay men and prostitutes and people that just misbehave.”

Carrillo is cautiously optimistic about new federal health care law changes. He hopes greater access to care will alleviate some of the treatment problems, but worries that other parts of the laws could hamper future grant funding for organizations like his.

Win-lose of drug advancement Carrillo and many others point to professional basketball great, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, who has lived for more than two decades with HIV, as an example of how far drug therapies have come.

The drugs have gotten cheaper through the years, too. A full year of the least expensive antiretroviral therapies that cost $10,000 annually in 2000 are now about $100, according to the United Nations. Worldwide, about 8 million people have access to these therapies, and the U.N. hopes to increase that number to 15 million by 2015. More than 34 million people still live with HIV or AIDS around the globe, including 1.1 million in the U.S. And about 50,000 Americans are still infected each year, according to the CDC. But the available drug therapies come with drawbacks. Often, they are given in combination with other antiretroviral treatments and numerous other drugs that may combat side effects.

Helen Miramontes, who saw the early years of the AIDS outbreak from the vantage point of an intensive care unit nurse in Northern California, watched her son take a disturbing 93 pills a day at one point. Along with the antiretrovirals, he took anti-depressants and antiseizure medicines, among others. He died eight years ago.

Even more unsettling for Miramontes than the huge cocktail of pharmaceuticals that some patients must take is the level of apathy among young adults and others who engage in unsafe sex, never giving HIV or AIDS a second thought. It is these people, who did not witness the many deaths in the ‘80s and ‘90s, who need educating the most, she says.

“You really want to smack them,” says Miramontes, now 82 and retired in Las Vegas. “You get so frustrated.” The early years of the epidemic are just “outside their experience.”

While heading the California Nurses Association from 1985 to 1987, she helped battle discriminatory California legislation, and later worked on President Bill Clinton’s advisory council on AIDS. But Miramontes is probably best known in the HIV/AIDS community for her role in education. She helped land early grant funding that she later used to spearhead nationwide education for nurses, nurse trainers and military personnel. The outreach involved issues such as signs, symptoms and transmission of HIV and AIDS, and her curriculum was always evolving.

“We were constantly on the edge of information, always out there in the unknown,” she says. “A lot of nurses and doctors didn’t want to take care of these patients. They didn’t know what to do and were afraid of being infected.”

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Timothy Ray Brown and Dr. Gero Hutter

With so much emphasis on drug advances, little consideration was given to an actual cure. Then Timothy Ray Brown, “The Berlin Patient,” stunned the medical community with news that a stem cell bone marrow transplant he received in 2007 had cured him of both leukemia and HIV. The leukemia reoccurred, however, and forced a second transplant in 2008. Brown has been cancer- and HIV-free since.

“It got us thinking about the possibility of a cure,” says Dr. Jerry Cade, director of HIV Services and UMC, and co-founder of the Nevada AIDS Research and Education Society. “In the late ‘90s and early 2000s, we’d forgotten to look at that because we were still chasing the next best drug.”

Brown’s physician, Dr. Gero Hutter of Berlin, used a blood stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare gene mutation, known as the CCR5, which offers a natural HIV resistance.

“I have had countless biopsies performed on me to look for the virus,” Brown told DAVID Magazine recently. “After five years, I’m still free and clear.”

Cade, who also has been involved with local research efforts, including CCR5 study, is enthusiastic about the story of the patient now billed as the first man cured of HIV. Cade, who was Brown’s doctor while he briefly lived in Las Vegas earlier this year, acknowledges that the operation is risky, and that finding good patient-potential stem cell donor matches is difficult. And when you do, he says, the procedure is very hard on the body. Brown recalls a time after his second procedure when he was sent home to live out his final days on a heavy morphine regimen. As a result of his first transplant, he still battles a neurological impairment that affected his speech, but otherwise is in good health.

Brown now touts the Timothy Ray Brown Foundation, whose sole purpose is to find an HIV cure. The charitable foundation has gone through early rounds of fundraising and is looking to collaborate with biotechnology centers and universities. Brown, meanwhile, is getting used to an expanding speaking schedule.

“Before I started the foundation, I was basically going around giving speeches for other organizations and wanted to have cure as part of their agendas,” he says. “Then I decided I wanted to be in a leadership role. I’m hoping that everyone who has HIV is able to be cured of it.”

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ver since Honey Salt opened in October 2012, the restaurant has been a culinary magnet for foodies and families alike: all craving great, fresh, flavorful, seasonal food. It’s the brainchild of dynamite dining duo Elizabeth Blau and her award-winning Chefhusband, Kim Canteenwalla, whose restaurant development firm, Blau and Associates, is world famous. Even their 8-year-old son Cole got involved — he and his classmates at Alexander Dawson School tackled the kids menu.

“Honey Salt” defines the restaurant’s culinary personality. “We wanted ‘food’ in the name and something that connoted ‘warm and welcoming’ and was fun and easy to remember,” explained Elizabeth. “Nothing is worse than a restaurant name you can’t remember or pronounce.”

“It also describes our food,” said Kim, “which is both sweet and savory. Some think Elizabeth is the honey, and I’m the crusty old guy.”

With an amazing string of successes on The Strip, and others nationally and internationally, why did the couple decide to “do their own thing?” And why the Westside?

“I was pushing Elizabeth,” said Kim, “because I thought it was time to do something outside The Strip. We live around the corner and can actually walk to the restaurant. It’s really an extension of our home because we’ve brought our philosophy of entertaining to Honey Salt.”

“Everything is so personal to us,” Elizabeth added, “the design, the food.”

A brief bit about Elizabeth’s and Kim’s backgrounds …

Elizabeth intended to be an attorney; however, while in high school and then later at Georgetown University, she worked in restaurants to earn spending money. Deciding to take time off before law school, she took a job with United Liquor, a wholesaler in Boston, and was hooked on wine. Then she worked for a floral and party company and saw another facet of the hospitality industry.

Next, she picked an old-fashioned candy company, Hilliards, in Connecticut.

“They made fudge, taffies, nougats, everything, from scratch,” she said.

“More than anything else, that was the catalyst that moved me from law to hospitality”… and to the Cornell School of Hotel Management.

She has worked with such icons as Sirio Maccioni of Le Cirque fame and Steve Wynn. She has worked in many capacities, including executive vice president of restaurant development and marketing for Wynn Las Vegas. In establishing Blau & Associates in 2003, she expanded her reputation in assignments for Kor Group, Montage Resorts, the Ritz-Carlton Hotels and Resorts, Trump Casinos and Viceroy Hotels and Resorts. She also worked with chef Kerry Simon on several projects, including Simon at Park Place, and re-envisioned the iconic Palm Court at New York’s Plaza Hotel. She and Kim opened Society Café at Encore, which received rave reviews.

Kim hails from Montreal, Canada, where he did his culinary training at the Institute at St. Denis (Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec—ITHQ). After graduation, he launched his discovery of international cuisine, focusing on Asia.

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in Toronto, he was executive chef in many exotic destinations, especially in Asia — International Hotel Group in Singapore; Le Royal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the Grand Mirage in Bali, Indonesia; Le Méridien in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates; and with the Royal Garden Group in Bangkok, Thailand. He returned to North America to the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Miss., where he met Elizabeth. His job as executive chef of the MGM Grand brought the pair to Las Vegas.

Now the talented twosome consults all over the world. They’re working on a boutique hotel in Denver, a project in Dubai building the “F&B platform” for the Paramount Hotel Brand of the movie studio, and, in Las Vegas, collaborating with TV’s “Cake Boss” Buddy Velasco to create Buddy V’s Ristorante at Venetian.

“We did a tasting in NY,” Elizabeth remarked, “and he invited his relatives to make a huge Italian feast of their signature dishes. Some will definitely be on the menu of Buddy V’s.

“The Honey Salt menu was one of the easier menus we’ve written,” she said. “I’d describe it as ‘American eclectic,’ with our personal backgrounds and ethnicity represented. Kim lived in Southeast Asia, which is reflected in some of his dishes. His Persian/ Indian heritage also influences his food. I’m Jewish, so foods from my heritage and family also are on the menu.

“We concentrated on how we love to eat and things we love and that inspire us, then gave them a new life. There’s usually some type of story behind each dish. The pizza oven was already there.

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“We’re passionate about slow food, farm-to-table, and have developed local relationships and connected with The Intuitive Forager, which produces both the Downtown 3rd and Springs Preserve farmers markets. Except for the ice cream (from Santa Barbara) and bread (local baker), everything is made from scratch at Honey Salt.”

“Biloxi fried chicken is on the menu because I spent time there,” Kim says. “I love the bone-in flavor and the combination of strip and tenderloin of the lamb porterhouse. I’ve been making ceviche forever, and it changes with what I feel like making … maybe a watermelon note, pickled cilantro stems, peppercorns. Cole’s school had been studying Peru for a month and was celebrating Peruvian day. So I had to put the food together and did ceviche. A couple of mothers said it should be on our menu. So we added it.

“Since Elizabeth loves salad, there are lots of salads, including her favorite with duck confit. What’s available in the market influences our menu. One time there were four different colors of carrots, several types of radishes, bread from Cape Cod … so we make a bruschetta and call it Farmer’s Market Toast and serve it with blended fresh vegetable juices.”

“Cole’s Corner” kids menu combines Cole’s favorite foods, including edamame and asparagus, and those of his classmates.

“We started with what we all liked,” he said, “pizza, chicken fingers, pasta, French fries and burgers … then made changes, like chicken wings instead of fingers. One dessert, a ‘Brookie,’ is a brownie made in a muffin tin with a chocolate chip cookie baked inside. After we decided what we liked, I took our menu to Dad and Joe.”

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“It may sound pretty sophisticated for kids,” Elizabeth acknowledged, “but that’s what Cole eats. We did a trial tasting with the kids, and they ate everything. There was nothing left for the adults.”

Kim and Elizabeth agree that family life is “most important.” They’re experts at balancing their professional lives and family time, not only with Cole but their parents, with recent trips to Toronto for Kim’s mother’s 80th birthday, to Connecticut to visit Elizabeth’s family, and to Bluffton, S.C., for a family gathering celebrating Elizabeth’s parents’ 50th anniversary. Each year, the family vacations at Cape Cod. What’s next for Elizabeth and Kim in Vegas? “We’re excited about what’s happening downtown,” Elizabeth said, “and are also interested in the Howard Hughes’ Shops at Summerlin.”

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Israeli medical personnel are known for their rapid response and state-of-theart, humanitarian aid to countries when disaster strikes. At home in the Jewish state, however, hospitals quietly are offering aid to victims of the conflict in neighboring Syria. According to local Israeli media reports, doctors have treated more than 100 Syrians at various Israeli medical facilities, and that number is climbing.

“This is a very cruel war,” says Dr. Oscar Embon, director of Ziv Medical Center in Tzfat. Thirty-three of the 100 Syrian refugees were treated at Ziv, the only hospital serving the upper Galilee and northern Golan Heights, which borders Syria.

“But it’s a source of satisfaction and pride that we can realize the values of our profession to cross borders, be humanistic and treat those in need,” Embon continues.

More than 100,000 people have died thus far in the 28 months since the Syrian civil

war began. The first patients treated at the Center were rebels involved in the conflict, Embon says. “Now it’s simple citizens … innocent civilians caught in the fighting and seeking medical attention in Israel.”

A recent arrival was a 15-year-old severely wounded by shrapnel while working on a tractor. According to medical center doctors, he was brought by ambulance, along with a blood-stained note in Arabic summarizing his unsuccessful treatment in Syria.

The youngest patient that Ziv doctors have treated was a 9-year-old boy who lost his eye to shrapnel. The child’s slightly wounded father carried him into the Center.

An Israeli Defense Force medical team delivered a 13-year-old Syrian girl to the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya. She suffered serious facial and bodily injuries that required surgery, according to a local news report.

Through Israel’s Save a Child’s Heart program, doctors at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon recently saved the life of

a 4-year-old Syrian refugee with a serious heart condition. Similar treatment was offered to three other Syrian children in Jordan with similar conditions, but their parents refused.

“Apparently, they fell victim to their own anti-Israel propaganda,” an anonymous government source told the Arutz Sheva Israel News service. Doctors in Israel are still hoping the parents will change their minds once the first girl returns to Jordan healthy and happy.

IDF soldiers rescued five seriously injured Syrians from that nation’s southern most border with Israel and took them to the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. “They asked for humanitarian aid and Israel extended its assistance,” according to top Israel Defense Ministry official Amos Gilad.

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setting up field hospitals near the border in the Golan Heights to treat the growing number of refugees crossing into Israel for much needed medical care. “First and foremost was the humanitarian aspect,” Gilad says.

Israel’s national security was among the other reasons. With a facility near the border, Israeli doctors could treat refugees without having to take them into Israel.

Officially, Israel and Syria are at war. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accuses Israel of inciting the violence in his country and siding with rebels. Israel’s stated policy is that it is

with Israeli soldiers near the West Bank city of Nablus was taken for treatment 40 miles away to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem. Nablus doctors realized they could not treat 27-year-old Hilmi Hasan’s gunshot wounds and asked Hadassah to admit him.

Against the concerns of some of the hospital’s nearby residents, senior anesthesiologist Micha Shamir traveled to Nablus to accompany Hasan back to Hadassah.

“It was a bit unpleasant,” said Shamir, “but at no time were we under any real threat.”

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not involved in the fighting between the Assad regime and opposition forces. The United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention prohibits any government from forcibly repatriating asylum seekers.

Political analyst Yossi Alpher says Israel consciously limits its humanitarian assistance, to avoid giving Assad more political ammunition against Israel. ‘’The idea is to do the minimum that human morality demands from us as neighbors, but not to be seen as the medical corps of the rebels,’’ he says.

Elevating life above hatred, fear or political agenda has long been the creed of the Jewish state, and the Jewish system of values, whose source is the Torah (the Old Testament). Medical care for potential hostiles isn’t reserved for Syrian refugees. It’s also extended to patients from Gaza and the West Bank, a moral obligation that amounts to business as usual for the Jewish state.

According to a Tel Aviv newspaper, this past February a Palestinian wounded in a clash

established in 1912 in New York City to provide health care in then Ottomanoccupied Jerusalem. In 2005, the Hadassah Medical Organization was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for its equal treatment of all patients, regardless of ethnic and religious differences, and its efforts to build bridges to peace.

Hadassah hospitals have gone a step further. At the Ein Kerem facility, Jewish, Muslim and Christian medical personnel work side by side treating patients.

Manar Igbarya, 25, is a nurse at the hospital. She is also a Palestinian Muslim and wears a hijab (a scarf that covers the head). “All they care about here is how I do my job. We all speak Hebrew, and above all we are a team and the task is to treat the patients,” she says. In some cases, she says, Muslim nurses treat Israeli soldiers wounded in fights with Palestinians, even as their Jewish colleagues attend Palestinians who attacked Jews. “This is a

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learning process for all of us,” she said. “But we treat first the patient, and then maybe later we hear what the story was.”

Hadassah’s mandate to treat without prejudice or malice was demonstrated recently when Palestinian Authority Health Minister Hani Abdeen visited Ein Karem Hospital. According to the official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Abdeen said that “30 percent of the patients who are children here are Palestinians.” The paper also reported that Hadassah is training some 60 Palestinian doctors, who will return to

in his book, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility, that the essence of Judaism is a call to human responsibility, or, as he puts it, response-ability — the ability to respond. He takes a wider view of the Jewish role in the world. He views Judaism as a constant demand for our attention and action; a tradition of dissatisfaction with the broken state of things.

“Religion should cultivate an uneasiness with the injustice of the world,” Rabbi Sacks believes.

The Jewish value of Tikkun Olam (Hebrew for repairing the world) comes to mind

serve the PA’s constituents.

Despite evidence to the contrary, the World Health Organization has adopted U.N. resolutions stating that “The Palestinian health situation faces many challenges under the oppressive Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.”

Another resolution condemned the “deterioration of the health conditions of the Syrian population in the occupied Golan as a result of the suppressive practices of the Israeli occupation.”

Middle East expert and commentator Daniel Pipes says it is “disgraceful that an otherwise respectable organization like the WHO would lend its countenance to these farcical resolutions. “But it’s an excellent lesson in why the positions of the international community are often deserving of derision, especially when it comes to Israel.”

Jonathan Sacks is the chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. He explains

here. So does Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself and Do Unto Others As You Would Have Others Do Unto You. Rabbi Sacks suggests that our global community has increasingly fallen prey to moral balkanization and to individuals and groups prioritizing their own faith, community, needs and wants above those of the greater good, including life itself.

The world has always been in need of healing. According to Sacks, we ought to be wary of splintered societies and cultures that attempt resolutions at the often brutal expense of others. Our ability to respond to this should perhaps be triggered by the extreme discomfort we feel from watching others suffer. Israel’s medical professionals demonstrate this idea of heeding the call to heal the world each time they set aside differences in favor of preserving the sanctity of life...no matter whose life it is.

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So are you.

To quote Samuel Beckett: “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.” So we’re all headed on a one-way journey toward Hamlet’s “undiscovered country.”

But, for the most part, it’s way off in the relative distance. In the U.S., the average life expectancy is 79 years (we rank 33rd in the world). Average. Which means that for everyone who lives to be 100, there’s someone much younger letting go a bit earlier to balance things out. So what happens when that theoretical “we’re all going to die someday” line is replaced by the ticking clock of “you have between six months and a year to live”?

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oncologist appointment, he posted: “This is my terminal diagnosis. We will continue to push as much as possible for further treatment and life extension, but I’m on the last plane out. Just remains to be seen how long the flight is.”

Lake is a writer. Putting words on paper is a passion as well as a coping mechanism.

In 2010 he wrote an incredibly personal novella, The Specific Gravity of Grief, a fictional tale in which “Jay Lake” deals with having cancer (there are still a few signed and numbered copies available from Fairwood Press). But Lake is also a blogger (www.jlake.com) and has been dealing with his cancer and the various side effects on his blog since it started. He’ll continue to do so until … well, until he can’t.

And he deals with it through humor.

“Guess it comes down to a simple choice, really.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.” – Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption

“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard

Being given a terminal diagnosis is about as devastating as it gets. No matter when it comes, I’m not sure you’re ever quite ready for it — even if you’re prepared to hear it. Writer Jay Lake has been fighting cancer very publicly since his initial diagnosis in May 2008. He received his terminal diagnosis in May of this year. He’s been given anywhere from 9-24 months to live – after going through four rounds of aggressive chemotherapy and other treatments. “No matter how much you expect something like this, it is still a shock when it comes,” he wrote in a May 11 blog post.

For a lot of people, receiving this kind of news would be a fairly big speed bump. It might sideline you for a week or two as you begin to piece everything together. For Lake, this blog is how he pieces everything together. On May 8, upon his return from a scheduled

Oncologist Nicholas J. Vogelzang is the chair and site research leader for the Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada. In his opinion, humor is one of the best ways to deal with these kinds of events. “It’s not the only medicine, but it’s one of the best.

Look,” he begins, “my Jewish family and friends, they know pain and suffering, through the Holocaust and through centuries of persecution. And who are some of the best humorists? What are ya gonna do? Cry about it?”

No. Well, at least not all the time.

To be fair, everyone will have a different reaction to the news that the end is fast approaching. Vogelzang has seen reactions that run the gamut – and he’s no stranger to that feeling himself. Thirty years ago, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease and treated

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with radiation. More recently, his wife dealt with a sarcoma-type cancer. It took chemo, radiation and surgery for her to beat it back.

It’s safe to say he knows what’s going on inside his patients’ heads, at least in a broad sense, and has a deep appreciation for what they are going through, because he’s been there himself. He believes one of the most important things is to listen, and really hear, what his patients need. He tries to help them overcome their fears and concerns, realizing that often, it’s not even about him, but a general frustration with the situation.

It could be “minor things like the cost of gas to come to the office, parking,� he says. “The fact that they don’t have Internet access sometimes when they come to our office. Simple things like having fresh coffee, a place to go after they’ve had a piece of bad news delivered. All these things just make a big difference in the way patients react to and deal with their cancer experience.�

Lake deals with his various treatments through community and tattoos. His once flowing hair gone (lost to a round of chemo), the back of his head now sports a tattoo: “If you can read this, I have cancer again.� In his February 2012 post, Lake summed it up this way: “I realized it was important to me to flip the bird to cancer in a big way.�

Vogelzang concurs – wholeheartedly. Recently, while talking to a patient he heard himself saying, “My goal is to keep giving cancer the finger.�

The patient, an erstwhile marketing executive, loved that idea.

He started an organization and now hands out canvas working gloves, the fingers filled with sand and the middle one erect.

On the back of the glove it reads: “Giving cancer the finger – We choose not to lose.�

Vogelzang has a few of those gloves in his office, visuals for his patients. “Whenever I have a particularly discouraged patient, I give them one and say, ‘Here, this might help.’�

It’s exactly what needs to happen. The patient must choose not to lose.

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“We can outsmart [the disease],” Vogelzang says. “But at the end of the day, you’ve got to just get pissed off with the cancer.

And the best way to give cancer the finger is to push it and not let it come back.”

So how do we push back? For people like Lake, it’s a matter of meeting the disease head-on. In late July, Lake hosted his own “JayWake,” a celebration of his life, a chance to “party with the man who has never passed up the chance to poke cancer in the eye and laugh about it,” his website promised.

Party organizers warned that “the jokes and stories contained herein will not only push the boundaries of good taste, they will leapfrog over the boundaries blowing a raspberry. This is not a time to say how Jay touched your life. This is a time to say how Jay touched you inappropriately.” It was also a chance for many to say goodbye, in person, to a friend still in good enough shape to acknowledge and appreciate it.

Just over 11 years ago, singer Warren Zevon was diagnosed with inoperable cancer. It would take his life slightly more than a year later. Themes of mortality had been filtering into his music for a few years before his diagnosis (a general distrust of doctors prevented him from seeking earlier treatment), with album titles like Life’ll Kill You and My Ride’s Here. It wasn’t until his final album that he really thumbed his nose at the Grim Reaper. The Wind’s third track is a beautiful cover of Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” and the final track is a plaintive plea to “Keep Me In Your Heart:” “Shadows are falling and I’m running out of breath, keep me in your heart for awhile.

If I leave you it doesn’t mean I love you any less, keep me in your heart for awhile.”

Facing the light at the end, Zevon went smiling, because there was no other way. Lake, in his May 16 blog, reported: “I’ve had several people note that I’m pretty cheerful lately. The not very hidden subtext is them wondering why I’m not wailing and rending my garments. Honestly, I’m not sure why I’m not wailing and rending my garments. I suppose because there’s no time for that sort of thing. I don’t have much life left to live, especially in something like normal health, and I have too much to do.”

Vogelzang says it’s a common sentiment, and an “amazingly cathartic thing.” Another patient of his, University of Utah professor Jeff Metcalf, has taken his prostate cancer experiences and presented them in two different formats: a play (A Slight Discomfort); and a series of essays, 52 by 52, written weekly during his 52nd year (see below for a link).

In the first essay, “The Killing Fields,” a pull-out quote seems to sum up the emotions present: “I’m going to claw for every minute I have left in this world.” The book, enlightening and funny, subscribes to the view that “I don’t want to die, I can’t die. I have too much to do. I wanna go fishing again, I wanna see my grandkids grow up.” It’s always present, but not overpowering.

Vogelzang, speaking about his patient, says, “He is going to have a wonderful but tough next set of steps. … Every person has a certain ability to grasp where they are.”

Of course, it’s easy to look at people in their late 40s and early 50s and think, “At least they’ve lived a bit. Sure, they may not have done everything, but they’ve done some things.” Then you hear someone like 17-year-old Zach Sobiech say on the Internet, “I want everyone to know: You don’t have to find out you’re dying to start living.” You

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Jay Lake while undergoing treatment, photograph by Shelly Rae Clift

realize that positive fighting isn’t limited to those with full lives behind them.

Sobiech, who died May 20, weeks after his 18th birthday, unleashed an Internet tidal wave when he wrote and recorded “Clouds” about his experience with cancer. He was diagnosed with osteosarcoma at 14 and was the subject of “My Last Days,” a documentary available through soulpancake.com.

Before he died, the teenager saw his song go viral. It gathered more than 3 million views and a number of celebrity fans. “Being able to experience these things, it helps a lot,” he says in the documentary. “You can either sit in your basement and wait, or you can get out there and do some crazy stuff.”

Vogelzang agrees heartily. For him, the saddest people are “those who have no family, they have no children, they’re estranged. They live alone. I feel terrible for them. They’re in the nursing home or they’re in a retirement home or they live by themselves …” His voice trails off.

These stories suggest there may not be one way to do things right, but there are ways to do it wrong.

“I have a sign in my office, where patients can see it – ‘Beware Attack Doctor,’” says Vogelzang. “I don’t mean it solely as humor. I attack the cancer, but I also will push people who are misbehaving: ‘Look, don’t be angry, and don’t direct your anger at me. You can be mad, but I didn’t get you into this mess. I’m trying to get you out of this mess.’”

Vogelzang participates in research trials and may suggest experimental drugs, always looking for other options for his patients. If they aren’t ready to quit or go into hospice care, if they’re willing to try new treatments, Vogelzang will be right there.

As long as they’re willing to fight, to keep giving cancer the finger, there will always be hope.

Jeff Metcalf’s book of essays, 52 by 52, is available for free online at http://issuu.com/adnews_magazine/docs/52by52_5.29.13.issuu Jay Lake’s books are available at all major bookstores. His The Specific Gravity of Grief is available in a signed and numbered edition at www.fairwoodpress.com

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efore he became a murder defendant last February, South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius was admired by millions.

Dubbed the “Blade Runner” for the carbon-fiber prosthetics he wore on the track circuit, the telegenic Pistorius was an international star, having lost his lower legs as an infant due to a congenital defect.

A year ago, as the first-ever amputee to go up against able-bodied athletes in the Olympic Games, “Ozzy” exhibited his grit and his artificial limbs to a worldwide audience. He epitomized a new cool for amputees. He had the looks, the panache, the endorsement contracts – and a gorgeous model girlfriend to boot.

By last Valentine’s Day, he was accused of willfully shooting her to death through the locked door of his bathroom, supposedly firing downward toward the toilet while wearing his famous Flex-Foot Cheetahs. He claims it was a case of mistaken identity, an attack on a suspected intruder. Investigators believe Reeva Steenkamp took refuge during a fight, and Pistorius went after her.

The upcoming trial, scheduled to begin Aug. 19 on what would have been the victim’s 30th birthday, promises to be a cause célèbre. It likely will expose him to further vilification.

But before his arrest, no one could deny that Pistorius, 26, was a veritable rock star in the amputee world. He had set the stage for greater acceptance in America, and abroad, of people with artificial limbs and prosthetics, including this nation’s stream of returning veterans.

By the World Health Organization’s reckoning, as many as 30 million people either wear prosthetics or are awaiting them in develop-

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ing nations. And according to WebMD.com, most of the prosthetic In the seventh book of Pliny’s Natural History, published in CE models they wear have similar parts: 77, the Roman general Marcus Sergius is cited as the first person • A socket that accommodates the stump. ever to use a prosthetic “hand.” Sergius lost his right hand, ac• The suspension, which binds the prosthesis to the stump. cording to the Elder’s account, during the Second Punic War (BCE • The shaft.

218-01). He got a metal replacement, which was bound to his arm, • The foot, hand or hook. enabling him to grasp his shield and fight another day.

• A covering for cosmetic appearances.

Roughly 3,000 years ago, an Egyptian noblewoman died wearing The socket itself is generally lined with foam or silicone to protect a wood-and-leather big toe. Her mummified remains, and the well the stump. Special socks are worn over the stump to enhance the fit preserved prosthetic, were found in 2000. and improve comfort.

In the Dark Ages, knights relied on iron prosthetics to hide In deciding on a prosthesis, WebMD says, the fitter should consider: missing limbs, which were considered a humiliating deformity.

• The location and level of the amputation.

In the early 16th century, French military doctor • The condition of the remaining limb.

Ambroise Paré invented a hinged mechanical hand, • The user’s activity level, particularly for a prosand prosthetic legs with locking knees and attachthetic leg or foot. ment harnesses. Around 1690, Dutch surgeon Pi• The person’s specific goals and needs. eter Verduyn developed a lower leg prosthesis with The fitting process, done by a prosthetist (PROSspecialized hinges and a leather cuff for improved thuh-tist), typically begins in the hospital, shortly attachment to the body. after amputation, and involves: The earliest literary reference to a prosthesis came • Measuring the stump and the healthy opposite around 1000 BCE. It involved the warrior queen limb (if present).

Vishpala. According to the writings, she lost a leg • Fashioning a plaster mold and socket. in battle and received an iron substitute. And the • Attaching the shaft. ancient historian Herodotus told the story of Hege• Aligning the prosthesis. sistratus, a Greek diviner. He supposedly cut off one Depending on the patient’s comfort, and how well of his feet to escape his Spartan captors, eventually the wound is healing, practice with the artificial limb settling for a wooden prosthesis. can be started as early as 10-14 days after surgery.

In our own country, tens of thousands of men A physical or occupational therapist will provide the lost arms and legs during the Civil War. Much training and care instruction. of the bone-smashing damage inflicted on those The BETH Project (for Benevolent Technologies combatants was attributed to cone-shaped, slowfor Health) hopes to get investors to back its efforts moving Minié balls fired from Springfield rifles. By to provide a new type of silicone socket worldwide. It some accounts, up to 50,000 battlefield amputacould be reshaped using a vacuum pump, obviating tions were performed, most done rapidly and with the need to replace prosthetics again and again when filthy equipment. a person’s stump changes size or shape and causes In fact, the legacy of the first soldier to undergo an pain or sores. Hurdles abound, though: a lack of seed amputation during the Civil War lives on in the field money; a deficit of trained specialists; a natural opof prosthetics. According to his namesake company, position from workshop fabricators facing a potenVirginian James Edward Hanger was 18 and studytial loss of work. ing engineering when he quit college to join the ConMeantime, a company in San Francisco called federate forces on June 1, 1861, as his two brothers Bespoke Innovations Inc. is using 3-D printing techhad done. Less than two days later, he found himself nology to fabricate lightweight custom “fairings” lapsing in and out of consciousness, after a cannon for prosthetic limbs. 3-D printing, also known as ball tore off the lower half of one leg. A Union suradditive manufacturing, involves building a one-off geon, James D. Robinson, and an ad hoc team spent product from scratch. nearly an hour removing Hanger’s mangled limb.

James Hanger and his Artifical Leg The “fairings” that Bespoke sells fit over a prosThe ghastly procedure saved the young man’s life.

Patent dated 1891. thetic to give it a personalized look. They can be “I cannot look back upon those days in the hosmade of polymer (dishwasher-safe), chrome or leather. At $4,000 pital without a shudder,” Hanger said later. “No one can know to $6,000 apiece, they’re hyper-cool but definitely not cheap. The what such a loss means unless he has suffered a similar catascompany advises potential customers to be fully acclimated to their trophe. In the twinkling of an eye, life’s fondest hopes seemed prostheses — the break-in period can take two years — before indead. I was the prey of despair. What could the world hold for a vesting in a custom-fitted piece of cover art. Through its fairings, maimed, crippled man!”

Bespoke hopes “to enable our clients to emotionally connect with Plenty, as it turned out. their prosthetic limbs, and wear them confidently as a form of perHanger would be sent home a few months later, the beneficiary sonal expression.” of a Blue-Gray prisoner swap. By then, a heavy piece of carved Technologically speaking, today’s advanced prosthetics are eons wood had been fitted to his residual limb, enabling him to walk, ahead of the peglegs of pirate lore. But they’re hardly new conceptuafter a fashion. When he got home, Hanger retreated to his room, ally. Ancient Greeks used the word prósthesis to mean an “addition, taking meals there for weeks. His parents assumed he was in application, attachment,” according to Wikipedia. deepest despair. He emerged about three months later, wearing a AUGUST 2013 DAVID

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Leigh Hochberg, worked with two brainstem stroke victims, including a woman who has been unable to move her limbs or speak for more than 15 years. Through an electronic chip implanted in the motor cortex of her brain, her thoughts were recorded, communicated to and decoded by a computer that controls an electromechanical device. It picked up a coffee thermos and brought it to her lips, driven only by her thoughts. She also was able to move a cursor around a computer screen the same way, and to “drive” an unoccupied wheelchair around her room. A PBS Newshour anchor asked Hochberg if the system might work for amputees.

“We’re testing the feasibility for whether … the signals that can be harnessed from inside the brain, might be of use for the control of a new and advanced prosthetic limb … ” Hochberg said.

Research also is being done on harnessing a potential, natural “battery” system within the human brain. Theoretically, the system could provide tiny amounts of electricity needed to power a chip that could drive an exterior device, eliminating the need every few years to replace a drained battery. And numerous labs are working on ever-sophisticated devices — some are already available — that can mimic the look and incredibly complex movements of a human hand. Electronic prosthetics already virtually replicate the human gait, and provide push-off power for a foot.

Until all of these advances become viable, and cheap enough for average people to afford, a sturdy, reliable, up-to-date prosthetic, and a large dose of human forbearance, may remain the best options for those who’ve lost arms, legs or other body parts.

The “Blade Runner” South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius

sophisticated prosthetic, with a hinged knee. He had fashioned it by whittling barrel staves.

He eventually patented “the Hanger Limb” and set up a company that made prosthetics for the Confederacy, and later the U.S. government. By the time he died in 1919, his company had plants in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and other cities, and in London and Paris overseas. And he had a far different outlook as an amputee: “Today, I am thankful for what seemed then to me nothing but a blunder of fate, but which was to prove instead a great opportunity.” Hanger Inc. of Austin, Texas, still bears his name and touts itself as the world’s premier provider of orthotics and prosthetic products and services.

Of course, the Holy Grail of limb replacement (and other body parts) is so-called regenerative medicine, where the body would be induced to fix itself. As Alan Russell, a University of Pittsburgh surgery and engineering professor, put it during a 2006 TED talk: “If newts can regenerate a lost limb, why can’t we?”

Russell said a mammalian fetus, in fact, can regrow a limb if one is lost in the first trimester of pregnancy. And he says young children who lose a fingertip can regenerate a new one – but not after age 5.

His quest is to extend that regenerative ability in humans.

Others researchers believe adult stem cells and preserved cord fluid hold the potential for helping the body regenerate missing or diseased organs. Still others think medicine may someday be able to use machines to fabricate organs or “scaffolds” that can be seeded with selfprovided stem cells capable of creating organ-specific tissue.

A clinical team at Massachusetts General Hospital, led by Dr.

Hanger patient, Carrie Davis using a microprocessor-controlled prosthetic hand with five articulating fingers.

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hris Lane doesn’t offer a lot of details about the accident that took his left leg at age 19. He’ll tell you it happened while he was riding his motorcycle in Washington state, that a truck “going 50” crossed the centerline. But the minutiae of that moment are lost to posterity.

As a cashier at a Costco in Summerlin, he may not have the fame – make that infamy – of double amputee and track star Oscar “Blade Runner” Pistorius. But Lane possesses a well of optimism to rival any professional athlete’s.

“Pretty much when I got hit, it amputated my leg,” he says matterof-factly, a quarter century after that day. “The frame of the bike and the frame of the truck kind of matched up. And that’s why it crushed so much bone and why it amputated (the leg) almost immediately.

“They were trying to soothe me (at the hospital), saying, ‘I’m looking at you as if you were my child … But you’re missing about 3 inches of bone that was crushed out.’ So the doctor said, ‘More than likely we’re going to amputate.’ I was just like, ‘You know what: Do what you need to do, because I’m in so much pain I don’t want to stay awake any longer.’”

After the operation, “The only thing I felt bad for was my parents, because they had to see me in that condition, being only 19,” the father of a 9-year-old son says. “So that was hard. But, for me, I’ve never looked back and said, ‘Sorry me. I’ve lost my leg.’ I never felt like that. I just kind of went forward.”

Pushing ahead meant getting fitted for a prosthetic leg, and getting over the strangeness of it all.

“The only way I could give an example (of what it was like) to a person that has two good legs would be this: Imagine putting on a really light running shoe on one foot, and on the other foot like an 8-pound ski boot. And then go for a long walk. That’s what it felt like the very first time I wore a prosthetic. And it was almost frustrating at that AUGUST 2013 DAVID

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point. I was, like, ‘OK, how am I going to overcome this?’

“And then it was pretty much like an acclimation. Your body just starts to change – it kind of adjusts – and to go with you. Within about a year or so – for me it was really coming natural. Even my doctors noticed that.”

While living in Washington after his amputation, Lane had a special job that occasionally brought him south to the desert.

“Part of the stuff I got to do when I was younger was come down to Vegas from Olympia and do (conventions) for different prosthetic doctors … I’d run on treadmills, things like that, to show how prosthetics work. … It was really neat.

“I used to come in the night before (the convention). And they’d all get together and have a cocktail session. All the docs are hanging, and I’d walk around and act like I was one of the assistants to my doctor.

But I walked so smooth that nobody knew that I didn’t have a leg.

“So I even shocked the other doctors, because the next day I’d be running on a treadmill. And they were just like, ‘Aren’t you that guy we saw last night?’ Because I don’t have a limp or you can’t even tell.

If I wear jeans you would never know I don’t have a leg. … But when I have my shorts on, that’s when people notice it. A lot of Costco customers come in here and they’re like, ‘Oh, God. I had no idea you don’t have a leg. I couldn’t even tell.’”

Lane doesn’t seem to notice much either. Four times a month he hikes in Red Rock Canyon. These aren’t leisurely strolls. Some last hours and involve some of the canyon’s most arduous climbs.

“I’ve been up to the top of Turtle(head) Peak and back, too, which is five hours. I did that on a 110-degree day. … You’d think it’d be harder with a prosthetic. But sometimes it’s not – because you can’t twist your ankle. … I used to Rollerblade when I was younger. I could Rollerblade for miles and miles and miles. And people go, ‘Doesn’t that hurt your leg?’ And I’d say, ‘No, it’s my other leg that gets sore.

Because I don’t have an ankle on my other foot.’ So, in some ways (the prosthetic) allows you to do more than you think you can do.”

But there are limits.

“Sometimes standing all day or being on my feet for a long time can be wearing. … There are times when it gets irritating a little bit, and then it’s a frustration. I still don’t look at it like, ‘Oh, you know, I’m an amputee.’ I just look at it, like, ‘You know, I have a prosthetic.

And it’s frustrating me right now.’ … It’s just like if you had a bad back … (you) kind of make it through that day.”

Lane wakes up some days, goes to the gym, spends time with his son, reports to work and then stays up an hour or so after coming home in the evening. He’s always had an alternative perspective on wearing a prosthetic leg.

“I remember a year after having my leg. I was in the mall … and I was walking along and I saw another guy … with a prosthetic leg. And I looked at him and I was like, ‘Oh, my God. That must suck.’ And then I thought about it and I was like: ‘I’m that same guy.’ Even to this day, when I see someone in a prosthetic, I think, ‘Oh, my God. That must suck,’ because I don’t look at myself (as) wearing a prosthetic.

“Sometimes it gives me goosebumps when I see someone, and I think: ‘Gosh, how do they live like that?’” he says, laughing at the absurdity. “And then I think, ‘Well, I do the same thing.’ But it’s still a shocker to me. I don’t know why. If I don’t see someone for a long time without a prosthetic, if months go by, and I see somebody, I’m like, ‘Oh, gosh, that must be a hard life.’ But it’s just weird because I’ve never looked at myself as an amputee.”

Go ahead, Chris. We won’t either.

— Pat Teague

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Oscar B. Goodman Jr., MD, PhD. Medical Oncologist, Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada/ Adjunct Professor and Researcher, Roseman University Far from the spotlight that his mayoral parents, Oscar Sr. and Carolyn, command, Dr. Oscar Goodman Jr. has quietly carved out his niche in cancer research. He received the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology and was named a Regional Top Doctor by U.S. News & World Report. After completing medical school and starting his career on the East Coast, Goodman came back home, joining the Nevada Cancer Institute in 2007.

With the unfortunate loss of the cancer institute, Goodman and other colleagues have picked up the pieces and are looking for ways to make Las Vegas a bigger part of the national cancer research conversation.

DAVID: What is your primary research emphasis right now?

GOODMAN: We’re trying to get a clinical trial open based on our lab research at Roseman University. It’s a partnership between our patients, Roseman and Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada.

Our lab work looks at new approaches to make hormonal therapy work better in prostate cancer patients. Hormonal therapy works in about 90 percent of men with advanced prostate cancer. But the problem is that after about 18 months to 24 months the treatment stops working. This leads to the growth of resistant cells and results in the life-threatening form of cancer known as castration-resistant prostate cancer.

DAVID: What is your approach to improving this prostate cancer treatment?

GOODMAN: We believe by targeting both the blood vessels [of the tumor] and the cancer cells themselves, the treatment will work better for a longer period of time. A key target is the fibroblast growth factor receptor [present on both cancer cells and blood vessels] that appears to be a critical requirement to providing the proper environment to develop resistance [to therapy]. Our hope is that this [understanding] will lead to a new tool in combating advanced prostate cancer that is not hormonally based. The trial, therefore, involves combining standard hormonal therapy with a pill that prevents the fibroblast growth factor receptor from functioning, and compares the combination approach to hormonal therapy alone.

DAVID: How many patients will be involved?

GOODMAN: We’re hoping it’ll be 84 patients. It’ll probably take 18 to 24 months. It might also open us up to other

organizations (to expand it). There has been some interest expressed by some other academic medical institutions and centers around the country.

DAVID: You’ve referred to this as translational research. Explain that term, which has been popularized in the past decade.

GOODMAN: It’s basically opening a channel of communication between the laboratory and the patient, who basically becomes a partner. It’s really a back and forth, bidirectional approach. We can deliver the ideas in terms of therapies to the patients, and at the same time we can learn from the patient, gather additional information in the clinic and bring it back to the lab.

DAVID: What are some of the funding challenges you face?

GOODMAN: The work that actually led to this trial is funded by the Department of Defense. But I would say, at this point, it’s even harder (to get funding) being in Nevada. Most of the funding is going to major academic centers around the country. … I think we’re going to have to think outside the box. I think we’re going to have to partner with some of the pharmaceutical companies, as well as some of the private foundations. I think we’re going to have to find new ways of funding the work. It’s going to be very hard.

DAVID: Do you ever feel you need to go elsewhere?

GOODMAN: A year ago it was starting to feel that way. But things are moving in a direction where I’m pretty pleased, right now. Some organizations tell me that unless I leave Nevada they will not fund me. That may seem offensive, but I also understand.

They don’t view us as an area where there’s a lot of research going on. But I think we can change that. We just have to prove to them that we’re for real. And I’m hoping that some of these efforts will lead to that.

DAVID: Roseman has the largest presence in the $50 million Ralph Engelstad building on the former Nevada Cancer NVCI campus? Is that site the new cancer research incubator for Las Vegas?

GOODMAN: I believe it is. And the Engelstads are hoping that’s what happens in time. It’s a phenomenal building and it would be a shame to see it go to waste. I’m very hopeful at this point. — BS

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