Dr. Merkow came into the hospital on his Sabbath and did and urgent spinal surgery on my multi-handicapped son and was reassuring and attentive to me in describing how his spine had split due to an undetected fracture from 6 weeks prior. He was so concerned that it be done urgently because of potential damage to the spinal cord. He clearly offered me an alternative approach, but I just new they weren’t viable and too risky.
