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🗓️ 6 August 2024
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0:00.0 | The And the When the morning of October 23rd, 1998, 52 year old Dr. Barnett A Slepian returned home from this |
0:32.1 | local synagogue following a memorial service for his late father. |
0:36.2 | Born in April of 1946, Dr. Slepian was the son of two first generation Soviet immigrants who started a family in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
0:46.0 | He first graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in Zoology, |
0:51.0 | then dedicated himself to the study of medicine at Mexico's October. and |
0:54.2 | then dedicated himself to the study of medicine at Mexico's autonomous university of Guadalajara. |
0:58.5 | After finishing medical school, Dr. Slepians settled in upstate New York and opened up with large private OBGYN practice in the city of Buffalo. |
1:07.9 | The practice offered a wide range of full service care. |
1:11.4 | From pap smears and infertility treatments to prenatal and delivery care. |
1:16.4 | Dr. Slepian proved very popular with his patients who spoke of his warmth, sincerity, |
1:21.3 | and skillfulness in his work. But among other circles, Slepian wasn't just |
1:26.2 | unpopular. He was downright despised. As a result of his work providing abortions, Dr. Slepian was targeted by some of the most vicious anti-abortion activists in the country. |
1:38.0 | Protesters from all over the United States descended on Dr. Slepian's practice. Some picketed it silently, others were far more vocal. |
1:46.7 | Pig, murderer, and monster were just some of the abusive names directed at Dr. Slepian, but the man himself tried to keep politics, |
1:56.0 | religion, and medicine separate and focused on providing care to the women and girls who |
2:00.4 | needed it. |
2:01.9 | He brushed off the protest with his signature dry sense of |
2:04.5 | humor and often soothe the fears of nurses and other employees by bringing |
2:08.8 | baskets full of fruit or baked goods into his practice. He was tremendously collegial to me personally, said one of his coworkers, |
2:17.0 | dropping everything and rushing to help me during my first week when a patient worried me. |
2:22.0 | Moreover, rather than criticizing me for interrupting |
2:25.0 | his day, he complimented me on my concern. It's not clear if Dr. Slepian was attending |
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