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At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of terrified New Yorkers fled the city, which had fast become an epicenter for the virus. Alexander Goldfarb had the opposite response. The doctor immediately drove to Queens, New York, to treat patients at Elmhurst Hospital, which had been decimated by the virus and suffered a shortage of healthcare providers. He worked at the hospital for a week straight, intubating around six patients every night. “All of this was a great risk to himself,” said Robert S. Brown ’59, a longtime colleague of Goldfarb’s. At the time, personal...

5 shares Illustrative -- A Pakistan Army helicopter flies over the site of an avalanche over Gayari camp, April 18, 2012 (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash) (JTA) — A prominent Jewish doctor in Boston died this week while attempting a challenging ascent in the mountains of Pakistan. Alex Goldfarb, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, was an experienced climber as well as a beloved nephrologist who taught at Harvard Medical School, authored medical texts and traveled to New York last year to treat patients during the first wave of COVID-19 patients there. His son told the Boston Globe that h...

Boston doctor who treated COVID patients in N.Y. dies climbing mountain in Pakistan By Travis Andersen Globe Staff,Updated January 20, 2021, 3:30 p.m. Email to a Friend Dr. Alex Goldfarb, center, pictured with sons Levi, left, and Ben, right.Handout A prominent Boston doctor who was killed Jan. 16 in a mountain climbing accident in Pakistan had gone to New York to treat COVID-19 patients at the height of the pandemic and led a life that was “beyond inspirational,” his son said Wednesday. Alex Goldfarb, who was affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, went missing on Bro...

Boston COVID doctor and Harvard lecturer, 56, dies in fall while climbing one of the world's highest mountains in Pakistan Dr Alex Goldfarb-Rumyantzev was climbing Pastore Peak near K2 in Karakoram mountains when he went missing on Saturday  His body was discovered on Monday by Pakistani military after apparent fall  Goldfarb and his mountaineering partner were preparing to ascend Broad Peak, world's 12th highest mountain  Goldfarb, a well-respected medical doctor and Harvard lecturer, had volunteered to treat COVID patients from the outset of the pandemic  

  >>  Reuters Published: 19 Jan 2021 02:55 PM BdST Updated: 19 Jan 2021 02:55 PM BdST Polish climber Magdalena Gorzkowska attempts to climb the K2 mountain in winter, in Pakistan in this undated photo. REUTERS Pakistan's military located the body of American mountaineer Alex Goldfarb-Rumyantzev on Monday in the Karakoram mountains in northern Pakistan, the second death of a foreign climber in the area in less than a week. "); } A helicopter team spotted Goldfarb's remains during a search and rescue operation that began on Sunday, according to the Alpine Club of Pakistan. He appeared to ...