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Medicine has changed amid pandemic Because of his age, Bennett said, Northwell did not want to assign him to one of its hospiLike other community doc- tals. He was sent instead to tors, Dr. William Northwell J. Bennett, 74, Health Physiwas directed to cian Partners in close his pracLocust Valley. tice, Northwell There, twice a Health Physiweek, he and cian Partners other doctors Family Meditook part in cine at Oyster video conferencB ay, i n m i d es, and learned March, when about the latest the coronavirus care options for pandemic was the virus and at its peak. The what scientists Northwell syshad lear ned tem added 3,500 about it. beds to its 23 He tended to hospitals to care p at i e n t s wh o for patients with had symptoms Covid-19, and consistent with needed to Covid-19, he deploy additionsaid, in person Courtesy Megan Eiche al doctors and as well as online NURSE PRACTITIONER staff. and on the “They creat- MEGAN Eiche is completing a phone. ed the equiva- fellowship with Dr. Bennett. “Back then lent of seven we wanted to large hospitals,” keep them out of the emergency Bennett marveled. “You can’t room,” he said. “That’s where have hospitals without doctors the people were that were sick. and staff. So they took them out The coronavirus changed the of the community, leaving a skel- whole environment of practice eton crew to take care of the communities.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
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GINA CATAPANO WEINBERG said she tried for days to get PSEG to tend to the smoldering fire caused by Isaias in the preserve across from her Oyster Bay Cove home.
East Norwich residents say they felt forgotten by PSEG By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
On Monday, there was still the distinct, sooty smell of a fire smoldering in Red Cote Preserve in Oyster Bay Cove. The blaze, right off the private road in front of the home of Gina and Neil Weinberg, began at 6 a.m. on Aug. 7, when PSEG Long Island restored power to Northern Boulevard, three days after
Tropical Storm Isaias blacked out the area. T he Oyster Bay Fire Department responded to the fire in the woods, as did the village police. The culprits were downed wires, firefighters said, but despite multiple calls to PSEG from Gina Catapano Weinberg and her husband, they said, utility workers hadn’t even stopped by to assess the situation. Gina said she was worried that there
might be another fire once the area dried out. “They cleared 25A but the line was still down in the woods,” she explained. “Two years ago after a storm, PSEG turned the power on 25A, and the vines on top of the wiring in the woods caught fire.” Catapano Weinberg said that she had called the utility company when the storm first hit, to warn them that there CONTINUED ON PAGE 10