Jean Harlow

The 100-year-old doctor still makes house calls.He must, explains Dr. Fred Goldman.That's where the patients are."If they're sick and can't leave home," he said, "I go to see them."They came to see him Dec. 12. Patients, friends and family — some using walkers, some in strollers — gathered in numbers passing the century mark at the office he calls, "the dump," to throw a surprise birthday party for the internist who is the oldest licensed physician practicing medicine in the state of Ohio.He surprised them. The guest of honor arrived 90 minutes early."I almost had a heart attack seeing all of the people in the hall and the waiting room," Goldman said between greeting well-wishers with a question about their health.How's your ankle?You still smoking?"People ask me why do you go to a doctor who's 100?" said Patti Levine, a fourth-generation patient of the doctor. "I tell them, because he's seen it all and he knows everything."The Blue Ash woman stood by a stroller holding her 10-month-ol...

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