​A Compassionate Journey - My Story As A Urologist

By Jay S. Rosen

My name is Jay S. Rosen, MD, and I am a urological specialist and surgeon. This is my story about compassion, the kind of compassion that draws you in, and takes hold if you to want to care, and provide the honesty, insight and respect that each of us deserves. We as physicians, at any given time, can become the person that then becomes the patient.

Medical school began in Guadalajara, Mexico, where I became the first American graduate of my school to be accepted as a resident in urology at the Mayor Clinic in Rochester, Minn. What an honor! At the Mayo Clinic, your first lesson is, "The patient always comes first," the most important lesson that anyone practicing in the medical community must feel, and feel it well.

As I traveled through science, the technology, I understood the intensity and complexity of such a call, and patients were always looked upon with dignity and treated with that kind of compassion. And whatever their disease or illness required, we gave to them, as we would for our very own families. It is that authenticity that draws us to our true selves. We learned to advocate for that patient by being provided with such a diversity of experiences.

As physicians, I truly believe that we also gain compassion for ourselves. We are filled with compassion for all mankind and we become healers, as well as healed.

I have carried that forth throughout my career no matter changes have occurred in our health care system. We cannot allow our current heath care system to compromise the idea, "The patient always comes first."

Dr. Jay S. Rosen is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J., and attended medical school at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he graduated in 1978 and returned to the United States. He was also a surgical intern at the University of Medicine & Dentistry in Newark, N.J. and from there, he spent four years of his post-doctoral training in urology at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., graduating in 1984.

He is a board-certified diplomat of the American Board of Urology and holds a license in the states of New Jersey, New York and Florida.

He is currently a clinical assistant and professor of urology for the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark; an attending urologist at Hackensack-Meridian Healthcare in Hackensack, N.J.; and an attending urologist at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J.

Dr. Rosen is the medical director of Surgicare of Oradell in Oradell, N.J.

Holding several positions at Hackensack-Meridian, Dr. Rosen served as the co-chief of Minimally Invasive Urologic Surgery in the Department of Urology at Hackensack Medical Center, where he was also the chairman of the medical board, and past-president, president-elect, vice president and secretary of the medical staff. He remains active in his practice.

Jay Rosen

Oradell, N.J 07649

201-834-1890

1124 Ridgewood Ave., suite 105

Ridgewood, N.J.

201-444-5988