What happens when a seasoned physician pulls back the curtain on America's health care system?Dr. Bernard M. Patten has lived medicine from every angle: patient, doctor, advocate, and critic. With wit, candor, and unflinching honesty, he takes readers on an eye-opening journey through decades of encounters that reveal both the brilliance and the failures of modern medicine.From the golden age of doctor-patient trust to today's labyrinth of insurance denials, inflated costs,...

Unlock the secrets of effortless piano memorization. Whether a beginner, an amateur pianist, or someone returning to the keyboard after years away, this book will change the way you approach playing, practicing, and performing.Drawing on decades of experience as a neurologist, memory expert, and passionate pianist, Dr. Bernard Patten merges the science of memory with the art of piano playing. He explains, in scientific yet accessible detail, how your brain processes music and provi...

This companion to Piano by Heart is designed for advanced musicians ready to put their memory training to the test. Dr. Bernard Patten, neurologist and pianist, expands on the foundational techniques introduced in his first volume, offering a series of challenging exercises that refine and strengthen your ability to memorize, recall, and perform difficult piano pieces with confidence.Inside, you'll find targeted memory drills that reinforce key principles ...

Many commentaries have been devoted to Lewis Carroll''s masterpiece, Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland. The interpretations range from Freudian analysis to speculations about the real-life people who may have inspired the animal characters. In this unique approach to interpreting Alice, the fruit of ten years of research, Dr. Bernard M. Patten shows that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, fused his passion for logic, mathematics, and games with his love of words and nonsense stor...

Before he became the world’s foremost expert on Myasthenia Gravis...Before he had the largest neurology practice in the known Universe...Before he solved some of the most difficult and often bizarre medical cases ever known...He was...young Bernie Patten(#1 but really the 3rd), idiot savant(?) and sometimes just an idiot.Who isn’t when they are growing up?Chaotic at times - but never boring - life constantly flowed for a boy whose namesakes included ...

Dr. Bernard Patten authentically captures in The Great Cotzias the realities of medical research; the petty jealousies, the back biting, the desperate race to knowledge—in short the red thread of life. Using novelistic techniques, we get the details, of the events and the people involved in the discovery of the beneficial effect of L-DOPA on Parkinson’s disease.The main character is George C. Cotzias, a Greek born, Harvard educated, hypomanic physician who in his frenetic ...

Doctor Bernard Patten―erstwhile Memory Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, founder of the first memory clinic at the Neurological Institute of New York, and author of scientific papers on memory therapy and memory problems―wants to help you to a better mind, a better memory, and, consequently, a better life.Memory degradation happens to everyone. Even people in good health forget where they park their cars or leave their reading glasses. Some draw a blank entering their PIN...

If you're looking for an old-fashioned honest chapbook about the experience of being an amateur tap dancer, look no further. Welcome to the world's first and only tap book written by a student of the art-not a teacher, a studio owner, or an expert. Delve into these real-life tap adventures and let them inspire you to bring the magic of the dance into your own life. This humble chapbook will open your mind to the world of this unique form of dance in ways that only a student of the art coul...

HMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is the most celebrated craft afloat and one of the greatest technical achievements of the 20th century. In her construction and maintenance are involved almost every science, profession, and trade known to civilization. On her bridge stand officers, who besides being the pick of the Royal Navy, have passed rigid examinations in all studies pertaining to winds, tides, currents, navigation, and the geography of the sea.For 91 days, author Bernard M. Patten, M.D....

Dr. Bernard Patten says: "Your life is quite literally in your hands. You have choices about how you can alter your life to live longer and happier." Therefore, it is critical to break down the growing body of myths and misinformation and to discover the truth about everyday health and well-being. Patten suggests that the benefits from even small changes in nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle are enormous, and properly applied will increase your life-span and greatly decrease your healthcar...

This companion to Piano by Heart is designed for advanced musicians ready to put their memory training to the test. Dr. Bernard Patten, neurologist and pianist, expands on the foundational techniques introduced in his first volume, offering a series of challenging exercises that refine and strengthen your ability to memorize, recall, and perform difficult piano pieces with confidence.Inside, you’ll find targeted memory drills that reinforce key principles ...

If you're looking for an old-fashioned honest chapbook about the experience of being an amateur tap dancer, look no further. Welcome to the world's first and only tap book written by a student of the art-not a teacher, a studio owner, or an expert. Delve into these real-life tap adventures and let them inspire you to bring the magic of the dance into your own life. This humble chapbook will open your mind to the world of this unique form of dance in ways that only a student of the art coul...