Karen A. Friedman, MD, vice chair for education, residency program director and associate professor of medicine in the department of medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in Manhasset, New York. Dr. Friedman is coauthor, with Sara L. Merwin, MPH, of The Informed Patient: A Complete Guide to a Hospital Stay.
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