Medical Examination

He told me to breathe in. Breathe out. Lay down. Sit up. Stand up. Dance the polka. After this was all done, he sent me downstairs. I thought my ordeal was over. But, no...

What’s a “spiritual”? It has all the trappings of the routine checkup we call a “physical”—height, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and stress tests on the treadmill and up and down the little staircase . . .

Go ahead with the angioplasty, but the one performing it must be a specialist. It’s better to get these procedures over with as soon as possible—but not on a Friday before Shabbos.