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		<title>Urologist Giving Ladies Unwarranted Check-ups on Subway</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 12:23:10 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Drew Grant</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_255722" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://observer.com/2012/08/urologist-giving-ladies-unwarranted-check-ups-on-subways/adamlevinson/" rel="attachment wp-att-255722"><img class="size-full wp-image-255722" title="adamlevinson" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/adamlevinson.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="294" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Dr. Adam Levinson, skirt-chaser (Mt. Sinai)</p></div></p>
<p>He was just trying to help out those without health insurance! A Mount Sinai Medical Center urologist was charged yesterday with <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/urologist-charged-with-shooting-video-up-skirt-in-subway/">unlawful surveillance in the second degree</a> after he was caught allegedly looking up ladies' skirts in Union Square.</p>
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On Wednesday, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/03/nyc-urologist-allegedly-filmed-women-in-subway-system/">a sharp-eyed minister</a> using his sinning sonar followed <a href="http://www.patientschoice.org/Dr_Adam_Levinson/profile">highly-rated urologist Dr. Adam W. Levinson</a> off of the 4 train after he saw the gentleman mussing with his newspaper. The fumbling doc was discreetly hiding a super spy pen camera; bending down to look up women's summer-wear.</p>
<p>The minister, Sheldon Birthwright of New Life for Better Living Christian Center in The Bronx immediately alerted Union Square authorities to the creep. Unfortunately, according to <em>The New York Post</em>'s account of the events, Minister Birthwright lost sight of Dr. Levinson after grabbing some cops. The minister on a mission was not deterred: as a man who had spent 18 years in the security industry and TSA, he was able to locate Dr. Strangelove hiding behind a pillar on the L train platform.</p>
<p><em>The New York Times</em>' makes no mention of Minister Birthwright's divine intervention in the proceedings, saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>(Levinson was) observed by a transit police officer at 5:15 p.m. holding a newspaper under the woman’s skirt with a pen containing a tiny video camera clipped onto the newspaper, according to a criminal complaint.</p></blockquote>
<p>The video pen retrieved by police included clips shot from underneath women's skirts. Dr. Levinison has since been suspended by the hospital, despite the digital "Compassionate Doctor Recognition" award given to him two years running on <a href="http://www.patientschoice.org/Dr_Adam_Levinson/profile">PatientsChoice.Org</a>. Minister Birthwright, the unsung hero of the day (except by the <em>Post</em>) rode off into the underground sunset of the uptown local track.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_255722" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://observer.com/2012/08/urologist-giving-ladies-unwarranted-check-ups-on-subways/adamlevinson/" rel="attachment wp-att-255722"><img class="size-full wp-image-255722" title="adamlevinson" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/adamlevinson.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="294" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Dr. Adam Levinson, skirt-chaser (Mt. Sinai)</p></div></p>
<p>He was just trying to help out those without health insurance! A Mount Sinai Medical Center urologist was charged yesterday with <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/urologist-charged-with-shooting-video-up-skirt-in-subway/">unlawful surveillance in the second degree</a> after he was caught allegedly looking up ladies' skirts in Union Square.</p>
<p><!--more--><br />
On Wednesday, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/03/nyc-urologist-allegedly-filmed-women-in-subway-system/">a sharp-eyed minister</a> using his sinning sonar followed <a href="http://www.patientschoice.org/Dr_Adam_Levinson/profile">highly-rated urologist Dr. Adam W. Levinson</a> off of the 4 train after he saw the gentleman mussing with his newspaper. The fumbling doc was discreetly hiding a super spy pen camera; bending down to look up women's summer-wear.</p>
<p>The minister, Sheldon Birthwright of New Life for Better Living Christian Center in The Bronx immediately alerted Union Square authorities to the creep. Unfortunately, according to <em>The New York Post</em>'s account of the events, Minister Birthwright lost sight of Dr. Levinson after grabbing some cops. The minister on a mission was not deterred: as a man who had spent 18 years in the security industry and TSA, he was able to locate Dr. Strangelove hiding behind a pillar on the L train platform.</p>
<p><em>The New York Times</em>' makes no mention of Minister Birthwright's divine intervention in the proceedings, saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>(Levinson was) observed by a transit police officer at 5:15 p.m. holding a newspaper under the woman’s skirt with a pen containing a tiny video camera clipped onto the newspaper, according to a criminal complaint.</p></blockquote>
<p>The video pen retrieved by police included clips shot from underneath women's skirts. Dr. Levinison has since been suspended by the hospital, despite the digital "Compassionate Doctor Recognition" award given to him two years running on <a href="http://www.patientschoice.org/Dr_Adam_Levinson/profile">PatientsChoice.Org</a>. Minister Birthwright, the unsung hero of the day (except by the <em>Post</em>) rode off into the underground sunset of the uptown local track.</p>
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		<title>Jason Schwartzman Goes To The Eye Doctor!</title>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:27:20 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Sara Vilkomerson</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/shwartz.jpg?w=300&h=219" />Sometimes actors are really fun! And sometimes we can't find room in our articles to fit all the wonderfulness in. Take, for example, this very interesting exchange we had with Jason Schwartzman recently while talking about his new role on HBO's <em>Bored to Death. </em>(Read our coverage of the show <a href="/2009/movies/hes-mega-twee-we-love-him-anyway" target="_blank">here</a>.)</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold"><strong>JS:</strong> </span>Um, this is such an amazing interview already because I just have come from the optometrist, and my eyes are <em>completely</em> dilated. I&rsquo;m pacing around my apartment in what feels like a dream. And everything is very bright&hellip;it&rsquo;s like a dream sequence , you know how in movies dream sequences tend to be bright and blurry? That&rsquo;s <em>exactly </em><span style="font-style: normal">what I&rsquo;m experiencing right now. It&rsquo;s kind of incredible because it makes me feel just like everything is really positive and I&rsquo;m in a really positive dream. I&rsquo;m just warning you right now, I&rsquo;m sort of like, as I&rsquo;m talking to you some back part of my brain is going, wow my couch looks </span><em>incredible. </em></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: bold">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: bold">I can&rsquo;t see you, you know, you can do anything you want!</span></span></strong></p>
<p>I know. But if you hear a hesitation or if I repeat an idea or a sentence, it&rsquo;s most likely some aspect of me is kinda fuzzy. It&rsquo;s amazing, these drops! I asked my doctor what they do, and they <span style="font-style: italic">loosen</span> the muscle. They relax the eye.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: bold">I kind of try to avoid thinking too much about the eyeball.</span></strong></p>
<p>Well, they are&hellip;they are, I know. We look at them all day long but if you take them &ndash; if you take them out of the skull and see it as a complete orb, it is <em>somewhat</em> <span style="font-style: normal">disturbing. And if you think of the fact that it&rsquo;s full of&hellip;jelly, well that&rsquo;s pretty gross. <span>&nbsp;</span>I love the idea&hellip;he numbs your eye and then he puts this other stuff on it and then he puts that&hellip;purple thing against your&hellip;and he&rsquo;s testing the pressure of your eye!</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: bold">So they can basically see into your brain at this point.</span></strong></p>
<p>Well, that&rsquo;s what I asked him! At one point he said he was looking at my optical nerve, and I was saying, &lsquo;how was it?&rsquo; He said it looked alright. And then I was thinking, doesn&rsquo;t the optical nerve go right to the brain? He said, yes it does. I said, &lsquo;alright. Can you see my brain?&rsquo; and he said, &ldquo;<em>No, </em><span style="font-style: normal">I can&rsquo;t see your brain.&rdquo; It was incredible. But so anyway, so that&rsquo;s not really a prelude cause we&rsquo;re halfway through the interview already&hellip;it&rsquo;s a midlude. </span></p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/shwartz.jpg?w=300&h=219" />Sometimes actors are really fun! And sometimes we can't find room in our articles to fit all the wonderfulness in. Take, for example, this very interesting exchange we had with Jason Schwartzman recently while talking about his new role on HBO's <em>Bored to Death. </em>(Read our coverage of the show <a href="/2009/movies/hes-mega-twee-we-love-him-anyway" target="_blank">here</a>.)</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold"><strong>JS:</strong> </span>Um, this is such an amazing interview already because I just have come from the optometrist, and my eyes are <em>completely</em> dilated. I&rsquo;m pacing around my apartment in what feels like a dream. And everything is very bright&hellip;it&rsquo;s like a dream sequence , you know how in movies dream sequences tend to be bright and blurry? That&rsquo;s <em>exactly </em><span style="font-style: normal">what I&rsquo;m experiencing right now. It&rsquo;s kind of incredible because it makes me feel just like everything is really positive and I&rsquo;m in a really positive dream. I&rsquo;m just warning you right now, I&rsquo;m sort of like, as I&rsquo;m talking to you some back part of my brain is going, wow my couch looks </span><em>incredible. </em></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: bold">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-style: normal"><span style="font-weight: bold">I can&rsquo;t see you, you know, you can do anything you want!</span></span></strong></p>
<p>I know. But if you hear a hesitation or if I repeat an idea or a sentence, it&rsquo;s most likely some aspect of me is kinda fuzzy. It&rsquo;s amazing, these drops! I asked my doctor what they do, and they <span style="font-style: italic">loosen</span> the muscle. They relax the eye.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: bold">I kind of try to avoid thinking too much about the eyeball.</span></strong></p>
<p>Well, they are&hellip;they are, I know. We look at them all day long but if you take them &ndash; if you take them out of the skull and see it as a complete orb, it is <em>somewhat</em> <span style="font-style: normal">disturbing. And if you think of the fact that it&rsquo;s full of&hellip;jelly, well that&rsquo;s pretty gross. <span>&nbsp;</span>I love the idea&hellip;he numbs your eye and then he puts this other stuff on it and then he puts that&hellip;purple thing against your&hellip;and he&rsquo;s testing the pressure of your eye!</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: bold">So they can basically see into your brain at this point.</span></strong></p>
<p>Well, that&rsquo;s what I asked him! At one point he said he was looking at my optical nerve, and I was saying, &lsquo;how was it?&rsquo; He said it looked alright. And then I was thinking, doesn&rsquo;t the optical nerve go right to the brain? He said, yes it does. I said, &lsquo;alright. Can you see my brain?&rsquo; and he said, &ldquo;<em>No, </em><span style="font-style: normal">I can&rsquo;t see your brain.&rdquo; It was incredible. But so anyway, so that&rsquo;s not really a prelude cause we&rsquo;re halfway through the interview already&hellip;it&rsquo;s a midlude. </span></p>
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