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When the
guidance counselors said
these are your possibilities medicine was one of them and
it seemed to me that that would be
sort of a perfect place for me.
The first time I talked about Boys Town hospital
was in June of nineteen seventy-two
with Pat Brookhouser.
We had just finished
our residences
and he was telling me about
this opportunity here.
The idea
that there would be an interface between
clinical medicine and research
and that would help
the future of medicine.
Pat and I would meet at national meetings at least
once a year
and we would talk about things. In about nineteen ninety Pat called me and said
you know we're starting to do some of the things that you and I have talked about.
He was excited, I was excited
and this seemed
very opportune and it sort of met my perception of what I should do.
My brother and I
would share a room when we grew up and we had a picture
of the Boys Town logo
in our room. The he ain't heavy, he's my brother.
So it always
had a sense of a circle, a completed circle for me.
I hesitate to use the word steady Eddy
but he was always very even in his temperament
very thoughtful in his responses. Older patients loved Ed.
He would care for them, he would be the one that would really provide
that compassionate care,
particularly in the area of dizzy patients that have been really struggling with the
problem for many years.
Ed was so compassionate, so careful with them and always wanting
to help improve their life.
The idea
that medicine is helping people
and the idea that you should try to understand disease process
so that you could
intervene
is something that i was always brought up with.
I was privileged to be able
to do research while I practiced clinical medicine. He was always wanting to
improve the medicine, the providing of
that medical care
and so he would interact with the scientists he would be the one asking
those questions that would help generate ideas for additional research. Even
though I'm not going to be seeing patients, I'm going to have an office
and I'm going to be involved in some of these
research projects hoping to tie things together. We are going to try and improve
the way we treat
hearing loss. I would like to see us
improve the way we diagnosis Usher syndrome. We very much want Ed to stay
around and because of his
because of that scientific inquiry and that and those questions you know
that's going to continue and we really want to support that because Ed
has those questions that he wants to see more answers.
I think Boys Town
does a great job
taking care of patients.
I think they have a
very good mission and I think they have a great infrastructure to allow
those of us treating patients to do so wel and
I thank everyone
who has contributed to that effort. I've been able to practice medicine in a way
that i think is the proper way to practice medicine.
I think
recognizing that
that the patient
is the reason
that were here,
that our job
is to take care of the patient.
I think that keeps everything in perspective.