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Labor Of Love from page 45
charge he said.
Lazar offered thoughtful insights
By January 1946, the consummate
on how he would practice today and
doctor had spent three years at war in
his excitement for advances made in
the American Army as a surgeon. "I
numerous areas, like in-vitro fertil-
thought I'd never get home he said.
ization programs, pre-natal corrective
And just like that, on April 13, 1946,
surgeries and 3-D fetal imaging, and
the physician, officer and gentle-
surrogacy.
man finally received his Honorable
"Oh, it's a new frontier!" he
Discharge and Relief from Active Duty declared.
papers from the Marine Corps.
"As brave new technologies push
"I actually received two Battle Stars
the boundaries of medical possibility,
by war's end, but I can't remember
our culture is both changed by, and
where I put my Army uniform',' he
changing, those frontiers. Bulwarks
laughs. "They tried to get me to stay
of religious and scientific leadership
in the Army by promising to make me
will undoubtedly face off, deferring
a lieutenant general. I'd had enough. I
to the courts to delineate. Tolerance
was only afraid my mother wouldn't
and breaking points will be sorely
recognize me when I got home because
tested, ultimately, political division
I'd lost all my red hair."
and legal wrangling is
Lazar met his wife,
a certainty. "
Bunny, at a dance soon
He added, "As
after returning from the
patients are given
war. They were married
more choices than ever
a year and a half later.
before, and are better
Bunny had two daugh-
informed and involved,
ters from a previous
the legal landscape
marriage. "They're my
will be hard-pressed to
stepdaughters: Maxine
keep up. "
and Mary Jane," he said.
Asked about mod-
Hecky Kasle Lazar is
ern medicine, from
Morton's current wife,
surrogacy to parent-
a good friend to Bunny
ing, he said, sighing: "I
Lazar who passed away.
think today's technol-
Dr. Lazar in his West
"When I returned
ogies have all passed
Bloomfield home
to Harper in 1946, L
me by. It's so exciting.
began administering
I'd like to learn it all
epidurals there and over at Sinai
today. It's all so intriguing. There's
Hospital of Detrdit," Lazar said. "Few
enough scientific material — enough
doctors knew how to do apply those
fodder for good fiction writing!'
back then. There was other anesthesia
He says he has "seen enough
being used, such as the caudal block
changes come about for one lifetime!'
that Dr. Joseph Curhan knew how to
administer; but I felt a caudal was
Happy Birthday
given too low in the spinal column
Whether or not Lazar plans to take
whereas epidurals were given a little
any more exotic trips, he says he has
higher up. It just gave a better block". "led an interesting life!' He was once
Lazar recounts, "Epidurals could
the proud member of an illustrious
be given earlier in the labor process,
group of doctors who traveled all over
with more than one shot to hold the
the country together visiting other
pain at bay indefinitely. Women went
OB-GYN practices, observing and
on to deliver babies without the need
learning new techniques and skills,
to push. As a result, my practice grew
incorporating ideas and increasing
significantly."
medical expertise.
I would assume Lazar delivered
Many of us know what it was like to
more than healthy babies in his
be under Dr. Lazar's care. As he turns
cradle of care during those post-war
96 this year, we celebrate the achieve-
years. He delivered anxious fathers
ments of this quintessential character
from pain as well.
of "The Greatest Generation."
For all the empathy that he delivered,
On The Frontier
Dr. Lazar indeed can look back on his
When asked what he thought about
years in obstetrics as a labor of love. El
medical advances in the last decade,
about complex legal, ethical and
This is an abridged version of a
moral posturing over new and avail-
biography of Dr. Lazar; the full version
able advances in medical technology,
is available at www. thejewishnews.
he said it is all "so remarkable".
corn/lazar-article.php.