DOC’S LAST HOUSE CALL

By Jeni Asaba

In 1951, the average home cost $16,000, gas was $.20, the New York Yankees beat the New York Giants in the World Series and doctors made house visits.

Born and bred Bronx native Dr. Sidney Simon remembers that year well. It was then that he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and began his life-long dream of medicinal practice.

After 57 years, on December 18, Simon made his last house call, ending an era of personal patient relations he said he