Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

  Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Playing The Odds ." The stranger told me: Precisely fifty years ago, t...

So I had a little procedure this week.  I hate going to the hospital--who doesn't? But I figured better to take care of something ...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called, " Heartfelt Challenges ."    It's about some of my reflection on ...

So all it takes is one mistake.  And your whole life can be completely altered.  The consequences for a slip up in a split second in tim...

I saw this sign hanging prominently in a large local Baltimore hospital here (and it comes from the Talmud):  "He who saves one lif...

So these were some funny stories recently... First, I came across an information system with a comical name.  Let just say that it rhy...

I read about this amazing " Spiritual Communications Board " that Chaplain Joel Nightingale Berning invented for New York-Presby...

Ok, I've had mobility issues for over 2 years now that started with a broken foot and ended in 3 surgeries and 2 hip replacements. O...

So recovering from surgery and with my cane in hand the last number of weeks, I've had a chance to see the worst and best of people.  ...

So I wanted to share this amazing and scary story (true) that happened to me a number of years ago.  I went with my daughter to visit the...

So I am more the emotional type who cries at sad songs or heroic endeavors.  But with the hip surgery, I have to admit that I have had...

So I'm one day post op from my 2nd hip replacement. They definitely gave me a little too much Percocet this morning and on an empty ...

As I gear up for Hip Replacement #2, my sister sent this funny comic to me.  I heard that something like a million joint replacements ar...

So I wasn't sure I wanted to share this, but my wife encouraged me in an effort to help others going through similar things. Recentl...

Ok, after the da Vinci System that uses robotics to conduct surgeries this many not seem like such a feat, but think again. While da Vinc...

This was something amazing that really gave me pause.  In the physical therapy center, hanging on the wall, encased in this wooden...

It's been only about 4 months since my mom passed, and now my dad becomes very sick from chemotherapy and ends up in the h...

Day 4...pain gradually subsiding, walking improving. Still pushing my body...walk, ice, walk, ice.  But more than the physical, I real...

So surgery was yesterday around 11 am. I was asleep under anesthesia before I ever even got to the operating room, so can't remember...

So I'm at a new medical practioner, and he sees on my information sheet that I am scheduled to have some orthopedic surgery.  He c...