Experience

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  • Staff Physician (Part-Time)
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  Gardner Family Health Network

  • Gilroy, CA

  • Staff physician (part-time)

    • Apr 2013 - Present
    • Gilroy, CA

    After retiring in January 2006, I did not work at all for 7 years, then did physician volunteer work one night a week at a free clinic in Gilroy. where I heard of this job. I work every Monday treating a panel of adult internal medicine patients.Since I work so little, I have ample time for a se...

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  Kaiser Permanente

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Staff Physician

    • May 1988 - Jan 2006
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    From 1988 to 1997, I was an Emergency Physician at Kaiser's Santa Clara Medical Center, and held the title of Associate Clinical Professor at Stanford Medical School for my work in teaching medical students and residents in the ER. In August 1997 I transferred to the Occupational Medicine Dep...

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  Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

  • San Jose, CA

  • Emergency Medicine Physician

    • Jun 1987 - May 1988
    • San Jose, CA

    My wife and I got tired of the weather in Boston, and moved to Palo Alto in the Bay Area, from where I commuted to my first California job in nearby San Jose. This urban county hospital ER was a very busy, high-acuity place with a high quality of care, a challenging and exciting scene for a youn...

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  Jordan Hospital

  • Plymouth, MA

  • Emergency Medicine Physician

    • Sep 1986 - Jun 1987
    • Plymouth, MA

    My first and only ER job in an upscale suburban community, and my first experience in self-employment, as a subcontractor for a company contracting with the hospital to staff its ER. This was a low- acuity, not very busy job with an wealthy, educated and demanding patient population. Pleasant eno...

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  Brockton Hospital

  • Brockton, MA

  • Emergency Physician

    • May 1983 - Jun 1986
    • Brockton, MA

    My best Boston ER job, in a busy, moderate-acuity facility in Brockton, a mid-sized, hardscrabble, lower-working-class industrial exurb similar to Lynn, MA, where I grew up. It was here, encouraged by my boss, Tina Blair, MD, that I really committed to a long-term career in the ER. At her urging,...

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  Sturdy Memorial Hospital

  • Attleboro, MA

  • Emergency Physician

    • Nov 1979 - Apr 1983
    • Attleboro, MA

    My first ER job back in New England. A moderately busy, mid-level-acuity ER in a working class suburb on the Rhode Island/Massachusetts border. A good job for me at that point in my career, but after about 2 /12 years, my affable, easygoing boss retired and was replaced by an aggressive, even tyr...

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  Rhode Island Medical and Emergency Services

  • Pawtucket, RI

  • Emergency Physician

    • May 1979 - Oct 1979
    • Pawtucket, RI

    My only New England "Doc-in-a-Box" job, in a newly-established, freestanding, for-profit drop-in urgent care clinic in a lower-working-class exurb of Providence,my wife's native city. Very easy and close to our elegant Blackstone Boulevard apartment. But it was boring, and I soo...

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  Raleigh Community Hospital

  • Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

  • Emergency Physician

    • Jan 1979 - Apr 1979
    • Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

    A slow, easy, well-paid ER job in an upscale neighborhood in a brand-new, for-profit hospital in Raleigh, and close to my wife's new job at Duke Medical Center in Durham. It could be boring, though, and my wife never adjusted to the social milieu of the Southern lifestyle, even attenuated as ...

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  Nash General Hospital

  • Rocky Mount, North Carolina Area

  • Emergency Physician

    • Sep 1978 - Jan 1979
    • Rocky Mount, North Carolina Area

    My first ER job. A very busy, high-acuity ER in a rural county hospital in a Southern state. This was where I learned my trade, an internist forcing myself to learn by rough total immersion the ins-and-outs of Emergency Medicine. My fellow ER docs were very patient, and they and the excellent nur...

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  United States Public Health Service

  • Peabody, MA

  • Internal Medicine staff physician

    • Jul 1977 - Aug 1978
    • Peabody, MA

    My first physician job after residency, I was working as an internist for the US National Health Service Corps in a suburb of Boston, in a downtown enclave of poor Portuguese/Azores immigrants in an otherwise fairly affluent city neighboring my home town of Lynn. This is where my suspicions durin...

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  Boston Children's Hospital

  • Boston, MA

  • Assistant Director of Public Relations

    • Jul 1968 - Jun 1969
    • Boston, MA

    My year in PR. All the old newspapermen at the weekly told me to get out of print journalism and do PR, so I did, and rather than try their other suggestion, broadcast journalism, I found this great job at a world-famous pediatric tertiary care and research hospital. After a call from a journali...

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  Jamaica Plain Citizen

  • Boston, MA

  • Editor

    • Jul 1967 - Jun 1968
    • Boston, MA

    After an internship at this community weekly newspaper in the Jamaica Plain borough of Boston, during the summer between my junior and senior college years, I dropped in without an appointment right after graduation to compile a portfolio of my clippings to help me apply for journalism jobs. Muc...

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  counseling center

  • Canbridge Ma

  • Data Entry Clerk

    • Jun 1966 - Jun 1967
    • Canbridge Ma

    Ran huge stacks of IBM punch cards through the data tabulating computers, generating reports on the results of psychology research being done at the Counseling Center and its several affiliated facilities.My first experience with the power of computers to analyze and compile data quickly and effi...

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  Jamaica Plain Citizen

  • Greater Boston Area

  • summer journalistic intern

    • Jun 1966 - Sep 1966
    • Greater Boston Area

    Paid summer editorial intern.Worked closely with Jim Hooley, a social worker (community organizing specialist) in helping transform the Boston borough of Jamaica Plain into a cohesive, effective political force working to improve the lives of the poor, Writing for the area's weekly newspaper,...