On 6/4/2011 3:36 AM, [email protected] wrote: > In the 1970's I was an ER doc at Santa Monica Hospital in Santa Monica CA. I > worked 12 hour shifts, 5 days on, 5 days > off. Arness came in one evening. We all treated him like any other patient. > We had a lot of 'Hollywood' type people in > that ED so it was not that unusual. I did not act like he was anything other > than an ordinary person and he acted like > an ordinary person. He was a little taller that most, but otherwise, just a > nice guy. Little did he know that I grew up > watching Gunsmoke on black and white TV with my family. My father was not > living at that time, but I know he would be > very proud to think that his kid was Matt Dillon's doctor if only for a few > hours one evening. I have a lot of stories > like that from my time in that ED. I loved practicing medicine - for more > than 20 years. Unfortunately the insurance > companies and lawyers eventually took all the fun out of it. But my hobby is > programming and it turned out to be a great > second career.
Cool story! Thanks for sharing. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
