MARINA DUNDJERSKI
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Marina Dundjerski, a Los Angeles-based journalist, has written about
higher education, nonprofit institutions and
Southern California history for more than 20 years.
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Cover Story: "Faith & Healing," U magazine
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"Dr. Jam," U magazine
As patients struggle to overcome serious illness, spiritual belief often plays a significant role alongside the miracles of modern medicine.
Photo: Michelle Van Vliet
Jason Roostaeian, MD,
(second from right) and his Help the Doctor bandmates.
In 1972, Dr. Hook memorably sang of its yearning to get on the cover of Rolling Stone: “... the thrill we’ve never known/is the thrill that’ll getcha/when you get your picture/on the cover of the Rollin’ Stone!” More than 40 years later, another doctor — a real one this time, Jason Roostaeian, MD ’06 (RES ’10, ’12, FEL ’14) — harbors similar, and perhaps more elevated, ambitions.
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RT @ABC: Thousands paid tribute to Vegas attack victims by lighting sky lanterns at a weekend festival in the Mojave Desert.… https://t.co/lRnTWoh0hl
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RT @PsychologyDoc: Man plants a tree in the same place every day — 37 years later, the world is amazed by the result https://t.co/hFOdLw827r