My Best Trip

Front line combat soldier in General Patton's Third Army WWII Stanford University--worked 40 hours a week and carried full load Invented flexible endoscope (fiber optics) 1952 Family practice 42 years in small town (Hollister) West Central California Had 12 foreign students live in my home, go to school and become part of my life Learned to fly. Joined Flying Doctors and made over 100 trips to Mexico over 30 years Earthquake West Yellowstone, Montana 1985. Flew in set up an aide station and cared for the injured Associate professor at Stanford Medical School and University of California at Davis, medical school Martin Luther King. Marched for freedom at Selma 1965 Earthquake Mexico 1985. Set up and led rescue team to care for the injured Returned with Rotary Club and Flying Doctors to help rebuild and totally re-equip hospital in Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico China: went there just after Tienanmen Square Returned to China several time to try to get Rotary Clubs accepted. Helped to bring equipment to large Chinese hospitals Developed a new mechanical theory about gravity and cosmology