“Not that much, but I’m not sure he knows what he’s doing.” When we voiced our concerns, my father said it was his money and that he would spend it the way he wanted. “Two fifty here, a hundred there,” Rajiv said. Nearly every week he was sending cash to random charities in response to generic emailed or televised appeals. He was booking hotel and flight reservations but neglecting to cancel them-something my older brother, Rajiv, discovered only after he began to monitor my father’s bank accounts. For example, he had always been careful with his money, a consequence of an impoverished childhood, but now he was bouncing checks. Since their arrival, I had come to suspect that his symptoms were not the usual age-related cognitive changes, even if he kept saying they were. He and my mother had moved to Long Island, where my brother and I lived, several months earlier. “Well, no one can remember everything,” he muttered. He thought for a moment, then sniffed defiantly as my point came across. “So what did you have for lunch?” I asked, staring ahead. Any lapses, he had been insisting, were normal for a man of his age. “Because your memory is getting worse,” I answered. We were sitting in the waiting room of the same neurology practice that was treating my mother’s Parkinson’s disease when my father asked me, perhaps for the third time, “Why am I here?” INTRODUCTION: THEY USED TO CALL ME TOPPER You can follow us on Twitter and email us at.

This segment of TED Radio Hour was produced by Katie Monteleone and edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour and Rachel Faulkner. Jauhar holds a BA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MD from the Washington University in St. The book also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will be determined more by how we choose to live rather than by any device we invent. His most recent book, Heart: A History, tells the little-known stories of the doctors who risked their careers - and the patients who risked their lives - to understand our most vital organ. In addition to his medical practice, Jauhar is a New York Times best-selling author and currently a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. Sandeep Jauhar is a practicing cardiologist and the Director of the Heart Failure Program at Northwell Health's Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

Part 1 of TED Radio Hour episode: HeartacheĬardiologist Sandeep Jauhar explains a case where deep grief caused takotsubo cardiomyopathy-also called 'broken heart syndrome.' He examines the connection emotions have with our most vital organ.

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