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When I look back over the 60 years or so I was
with Kaiser Permanente, it's such a remarkable story.
First and foremost, I was a physician.
And it was Dr. Sidney Garfield that switched me from medicine
into medical computing.
He was my boss and I did it.
And spent the rest of my life in that field.
The first several years we developed computer programs
for health testing of individuals.
And then went on to computerize the laboratory
and all the other sub-systems in the program.
We must have done something right, I keep saying.
I just love to write.
And I know I write well because I have written and published
200 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
And this is my seventh book.
I sit and write most of the day.
And I set a kitchen timer for 60 minutes as soon as I sit down.
And when that timer goes off, then I get up and walk up and
down stairs and walk around the hallway for several minutes.
And go back and work on the book.
The Division of Research librarians,
I call them my angels because they are so gracious,
and always found somewhere,
copies of the articles that I needed.
Dr. Tracy Lieu, the new director of the Division of Research,
I think she's going to do a great job.
So I think the Division of Research will
become one of the major medical research departments
in the world.
I'm most proud of being able to have been a part of the
current electronic patient records that we have.
If you asked me, what's the most remarkable part of my life?
I just feel I was the luckiest person.