in remembrance of my mother, Beate Caspari-Rosen, MD, who suffered the pains of birth at on of the bleakest moments of history after escaping from certain death in Germany at the hands of the Nazis. My father, George Rosen, MD, was her sole comfort during my birthing. All doctors and nurses were listening to the news. Pearl Harbor had been bombed. Inauspicious was my entrance into this world.
