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Steven Z. Kussin

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Education: Raised in the New York public school system. Attended college at Columbia University and medical school at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Post-graduate training was also completed at Einstein. Hospital experience includes Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx.
“There I learned that I could treat anything (anything!) for at least 15 minutes until the special forces arrived,” Dr. Kussin explained. “Knife and gun shot wounds, failed suicide attempts, heroin and alcohol overdoses, psychiatric emergencies and people presenting for the very first time with their diseases to spend the last ten minutes of their lives with me rather than having dropped by ten years earlier when I could have done something for them.”

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Primers on how to get the best possible medical care can be boring. This one is not. It opens dramatically,
with a teenage driver crashing into the author’s car, which ended his 30 years in clinical practice as a
doctor and turned him into a patient. This experience, not just his status as a physician, gives Kussin
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