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LOCAL DOCTOR EARNS NATIONAL HUMANITARIAN AWARD FROM HEALTH SYSTEM
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LOCAL ATHLETES RACE AGAINST TIME THANKS TO NEW ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS
After a stint in Gaza, Mohammad Subeh receives top HCA Healthcare honor
Students are adapting to altered playing field while competing against one another
Dinah Cotton, Contributor
Camry n Gr ace Whitfield, Contributor
I met Dr. Mohammad Subeh in the Good Samaritan Hospital lobby, just after he returned from the HCA Healthcare Inc. headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, where he’d traveled to receive the Frist Humanitarian Award. This award was created in 1971 and named after HCA’s co-founder Dr. Thomas F. Frist Sr. Dr. Subeh was honored alongside one employee and one volunteer recipient, chosen from more than 310,000 colleagues and affiliated physicians nationwide. This humanitarian award is the most prestigious honor bestowed by HCA Healthcare. “I think that my draw to medicine began at a young age. I grew up in Los Angeles, in an unincorporated area of East Los Angeles—growing up with parents who had lots of chronic medical conditions and finding difficult access to medical care,” Dr. Subeh began. Going on he stated, “one of the things that always was inspirational for me was, while attending elementary school, seeing the helicopters land at a nearby hospital. It’s like, I definitely want to do what those folks are doing on that helicopter.” Last year Dr. Subeh spent three months in Gaza and Lebanon. In an online interview he stated, “During my time in ➝ Dr. Subeh, 6
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of college eligibility, especially due to the NCAA Division I five-year rule. It is one of the biggest obstacles student-athletes face, and, for some, more challenging than the sport they play itself. However, change is unfolding as athletes everywhere, such as Los Gatos native Jackson Benjamin, a defensive back for Morehead State University, are seeing their playing time expand into new territories. “It was like a roller coaster,” Benjamin recalled as he hoped for an additional season, “—and it ended up happening.” The contentious NCAA Division I five-year rule is simply a clock that gives athletes five years to play four seasons. ➝ Eligibility, 8
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GLOBAL TOUR SPLASH Los Gatos resident Flor de Maria Rivera (right) with Shakira ahead of the international pop artist’s show at Oracle Park in San Francisco on June 30, during her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. In this photo, Rivera is wearing the Flor de Maria high heel model Shakira previously sported. Flor de Maria is planning a Shakira-inspired pair of shoes to drop this winter. Read more P10.
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