Five mornings a week, Dr. David Slotweriner, head of cardiology at the Newyork-Presbyterian Queens hospital, can find human hearts.
But on Sundays in the morning, it is in a field covered with grass on a rural farm in Hacketstown, NJ, standing between half of the sheep of the boxes, whistle in their hand, teaching its border Collies Cosmo and Luna to Herd.
“It helps me to think about what is needed to be an effective leader, he thought that doctors do not respond very well to the whistles,” said Dr. Final Winer, 58, who specializes in cardiac electophysiology.
He began arriving at the farm during the Ponvirus pandemic, after Cosmo began to show aggression and bit his wife, Anne Slotwain, 60. A coach arrived at a small sheep farm in New Jersey, Wayside Farm, which the coach places: El Herto.
Dr. Final Winer shares a three bedroom house in Pelham, the oldest city of Westchester County, with his wife, Cosmo, Luna and a rescue of 15 -year -old American eskimal, George. (He has two adult children, Harry, 28, and Peter, 25.)
Sleeping in, child or Duration of the week, I get around 5 in the morning, but on Sundays, I will sleep until 6:30 am is not a person in the morning, but I have forced the leg to be a person in the morning. I will start the day reading The New York Times on my iPhone in bed.
Get up and mount I go to a Soulcycle class of 7:30 am in Bronxville. It is always scheduled for the rhythm of music, which makes it different from other turning classes. Before the pandemic, it was to take six classes a week, which was not healthy.
Morning meeting Around 9 am, I find my wife for breakfast at Caffè Ammi in Pelham. She will have the dogs in her car, because my car is not large enough to take them to the farm. I will get a large stuff of whole milk with a sugar and a heated blueberry bun and, if I feel decadent, a almond croissant.
To the farm I drive approximately one hour and 15 minutes to Wayside Farm. I will listen to a podcast along the way, I love “Hard Fork” and the Newyork-Presbyterian “Health Matters” podcast. And I really enjoy “this week in cardiology” by John Mandrola. It is a bit cascarrabias and is always slow to adopt a new technology, so I like to hear your critical perspectives. I tend to be a small previous adopter, but I like to listen to the science on both sides.
Whistle while you work We arrived at the farm around 11 in the morning, and I take my whistle and put myself to the headphones, the distances are very large throughout the field, so that is how I can listen to the people who train me, and go to the field with Cosmo and Luna.
Gene Sheninger and Teri Rhodes, who own the farm, train people at the highest level of international competition, but will also take newbies. There are other grazing breeds, but border collies tend to be the most common and tend to be the best for sheep.
Steps The first thing you teach them is to go in a schedule, what is called “come” or in an anti -Horary sense, “far.” And then you teach them to conduct the sheep towards you in a straight line, in a controlled way, so that the sheep so fast do not push that they disperse. And then you teach them to push the sheep beyond you, which is one of the most difficult things to do, because Border Collies wants to order: they do not want the sheep to escape.
The final challenge is to teach the dog to separate the sheep in two groups, because the sheep instinctively because they remain together as a flock.
Trade tools Once you are a certain distance, you must give the commands that use a whistle. In competitions, sometimes you do this more than 800 or 900 yards, where you can’t see the sheep. But dogs learn to trust you so much that they know that if you give them the order to go in the direction of the clock needles, even if they are not sheep, they go in a schedule to the edge of the field and keep running and run until they find them.
Nostalgia of the rookie It is great to be a rookie at my age, because I am teaching medical students and residents every day. I am teaching cardiologists to attend how to do invasive procedures. It is refreshing to be a beginner in something, remember what it is to learn while teaching people.
Enter the area I will pack around 12:30 pm or 1 pm, then I will go up to the car and finish my medical podcast on the way back to Pelham. It helps me to put myself in the mentality for work.
Detour If I am on duty at the hospital, I am every fourth weekend, I will go to the city center to eat something before my turn. I love soup meatballs in Juqi.
Dr. Bow-Tie will see you now I arrive around 2 in the afternoon and change to the bushes. In general, I will have four or five patients to control, and then I will take care of some documents or check a manuscript or two.
I am usually shaking a loop tie. Fifteen years ago, a patient gave me one and decided that I would try. It took me some time to discover how to tie them, were many YouTube videos, but then I used it occasionally, my patients really liked. Then I put everything in the arc ties. I have more than 50.
Dinner date Around 5 or 6 pm, I will return to Pelham to pick up my wife, and we will meet our son Harry and our daughter -in -law for dinner in Williamsburg. One of our favorite places is Ringolevio. If I am wasteful, I will take a skirt fillet and a glass of red wine. Or I could meet my parents, who live in Battery Park, in a Greek restaurant in their block, Anassa Taverna. I love grilling Branzino, with white wine.
Frisbees fun You can’t return home to Border Collies and say: “Ok, it’s time to go to bed.” They have grazing in their legs for an hour and a half to two hours, and they are working hard. So I will return home and play Frisbee with Cosmo and Luna for about half an hour. Cosmo is very motivated for toys. Luna mostly wants affection and interaction.
Ignition time I will get to bed around 11:30 pm and read for half an hour in my Kindle. At this moment I am reading a French novel by Tana, “Faithful Place”, what I am enjoying. It is a book to clean my brain. I also finished another book that I really love, “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver. “I love the characteristic in which you can change the child reading and listen to it, because I travel, while I travel is to work or the farm, I can continue it.
Out like a light I usually fall asleep near midnight. I am a night owl. But I am not going to Soulcycle on Monday morning, since I have had the whole weekend to exercise, so I don’t have to get up until 6.
