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"Other than surgical journals, what publications do you enjoy reading?" I read voraciously...can't get enough information to satisfy my curiosity. Here is a sampling of the publications I enjoy: Nature, Science, Scientific American, Discover, Astronomy, Smithsonian, Natural History, Inc. Magazine, Horticulture, Pennsylvania Wildlife, American Forestry, American Horticulture, Green Scene, Flower & Garden, Philadelphia Magazine, Men's Fitness, Men's Health, Golf Digest, Selling Power, Fortune Small Business, Money, National Wildlife, Audubon, Sierra, Outdoor Photography, Wildlife Art News, The Parachutist, Travel Smart, The National Law Journal, Fred Pryor's Managers Edge, Nation's Business, Zoogoer, Investor's Business Daily, and USA Today. | ||||
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"Can you tell me something about yourself that few people know?" When I was a teenager, I raised racing pigeons (also known as "homing" pigeons because of their ability to fly home after being taken far away and released). I would take five or six of them to our high school football games in a burlap sack and release them when our team scored a touchdown. The birds had 4 foot red and black colored streamers on their legs and would circle around the field a few times before heading home. I would imagine each Saturday evening they would sit in the loft and cluck about their experiences at that day's football game. | ||||
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"How did you get interested in gardening?" When I was very young I started a butterfly collection (which I still have today). Part of entomology is learning the food plants of the larval forms of the butterflies and moths. This sparked an interest in all plants, and with a background in biology from undergraduate school, it was an easy transition to gardening. In addition I love outdoor activities. | ||||
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"What is your favorite garden plant?" I have two favorites: water lilies and daylilies. Both of these plants are easy to grow, maintain, and propagate with a minimum of work. And they will reward you year after year with a fabulous display of flowers. There is at least one variety of each of these plants that will bloom sometime throughout the entire summer in my own horticultural climate zone. To learn more about daylilies, go to DAYLILY WEBSITE. | ||||
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"What type of music do you like to play on the piano?" What most people would call "easy-listening" music---and a little ragtime and jazz. A few of my favorite composers are George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jule Styne, Hoagy Carmicheal, Sammy Fain, Marvin Hamlisch, and Jerome Kern. I also like show tunes from Broadway musicals, especially from the teams of Rogers and Hart and Rogers and Hammerstein. | ||||
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"Skydiving? Are you nuts? Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane???" The first year I attended Juniata College, one of my classmates, Jeff Dunkle, made a "demo" jump into the center of the football stadium during half-time at the Homecoming game. I thought it looked like lots of fun and hoped to do a skydive myself......sometime. I have no idea where Jeff is now, but "Wherever you are, Jeff, I finally got to make that skydive." Skydiving can also be a very positive, character-building experience. It has been said, "If there is no fear, there can be no courage." Skydiving builds courage by forcing you to confront your fear head on. I don't think anyone can honestly say he or she had no fear the first jump out of an airplane. Even though you are wearing a parachute, it seems completely illogical to exit an airplane going 100 mph at a few thousand feet above the earth. Almost nothing else stacks up to the feeling of anticipation a few seconds before you jump--it's actually quite a remarkable experience. The free-fall at terminal velocity (120 mph) is difficult to describe in a few words: maybe "exhilarating," "awe-inspiring," or simply "SPECTACULAR"!! If you'd like to learn more about skydiving, go to the web site of the United States Parachute Association. | ||||
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"How many operations have you performed?" Between 16,500 and 17,000. The exact number is unknown because not all the data is available from the first two years I was in surgical practice. This number of operations was performed over a period of 23 years. I also performed about 1,000 additional operations during surgical residency and these are not included in the above total. | ||||
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"What is it like performing surgery? Is it very stressful?" It is not nearly as melodramatic as the medical shows on television would have you believe. After performing nearly 17,000 operations, I am rarely surprised by what happens in the operating room. However there is a certain "immediate" gratification one gets in helping others to enjoy better health through surgery. Many serious diseases treated by medical means are never cured---their symptoms and complications are only delayed or curtailed. | ||||
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"How does it feel when a surgeon in training performed his first operation?" Not as anxiety-provoking as you might think. By the time a surgeon does his first operation, he has watched or assisted in several hundred others. So he has more experience than you would expect and is well-prepared to perform that first operation. There is always an experienced surgeon actually assisting in the operating room for "backup" support, if needed. After the surgeon-in-training has done a few hundred operations with an experienced surgeon assistant, he is ready to "solo," however there is always an experienced surgeon immediately available outside the operating room for assistance if needed. | ||||
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Does your professional practice have a presence on the web? Not presently. | ||||
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