Michigan Surgica
Associates, P.C.
Specializing in General and
Laparoscopic Surgery
• Breast and Colon Cancer Screening
• Conveniently Located
• Variety of Office Hours
Affiliated With Many
Local Hospitals:
Eric A. Brown, M.D., F.A.C.S
William L. Kestenberg, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Joseph V. Rizzo, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Michael G. Taylor, M.D., F.A.C.S.
4/10
1998
Akash R. Sheth, M.D.
• Huron Valley-Sinai • Sinai • Troy Beaumont
• St. John Hospital And Medical Center
• St. John Macomb • Bon Secours
• Providence • Macomb Hospital Center
• St. John Oakland Hospital
Most Major Insurance Plans
Accepted:
• Medicaid/Medicare
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• Blue Care Network • Omnicare
• HAP • Selectcare • M Care • PPM
• Wellness Plan • Aetna • Blue Cross PPO
• Smart Care • First Care • Cigna • PHCS
• Plus Many Others. Call For Details.
Lynda Glasser, an accountant,
works full time with her husband
Allen in their Southfield accounting
firm. She, too, relies on a planning
calendar for appointments and keep-
ing tabs on the school schedule of
their 5-year-old daughter. Glasser also
relies on her cellular phone so that
clients can reach her at any time or
place and she can rearrange her sched-
ule.
"Staying well organized is very
important in our profession, particu-
larly around tax time," said Glasser.
"When I first started in this profes-
sion, I used to think it important that
I remember everything there was to
know about a client, even memorizing
social security numbers.
"I'm more selective now I can
always look up the social security
number but I make it my business to
remember personal specifics about a
client — maybe a recent illness, or a
business success, or becoming a grand-
parent. I don't write these things
down; I just make sure I remember
them."
Ruby Kushner uses calendars to jar
her memory for appointments, but
she seldom forgets what's important to
know about a client.
"It's not unusual for me to see a
client I haven't seen in five years,
maybe more, and still focus on those
events that we dealt with years ago,"
said Kushner, a social worker and
therapist.
Glasser and Kushner have discov-
ered something in their professional
life that many of us don't realize
because we don't pay attention.
Indeed, much of what we forget was
never really learned in the first place.
There are major misconceptions
about memory loss, according to Dr.
Joshua Adler, neurologist and associate
professor at Wayne State University
School of Medicine.
"First, someone with dementia or
Alzheimer's doesn't just struggle
from memory loss but rather suffers
from a loss of multiple cognitive fac-
tors. including language function,
judgment, the ability to think
abstractly, to calculate, and to com-
municate.
"Secondly, there are very few condi-
tions in which memory is lost com-
pletely. One condition is due to a vita-
min B deficiency in which the loss is
permanent and never recovered, and
the other is called transient global
amnesia in which a person can't lay