Honestly, this page is mostly here for my friends and for me to have a place to point people when they ask questions which will take too long to answer.
Let's cover some of those now, shall we?
I am an emergency physician. It's a specialty; we have a specialty board, and an exam, and everything. Just like the real specialties. I currently practice at the Quincy Medical Center. Before that, I worked for EMP, a contract company for emergency physicians. They were interesting, but in the final analysis, we had different ideas about what medicine is about, and we parted ways. They're not a bad company if you share their vision and goals - many contract groups are exploits for cheap labor, and EMP, as best as I could tell, was sincere in their intent of making physicians who worked for them into partners. Unfortunately, we were just a bad match. Before that, I worked at Tripler Army Medical Center, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Welcome to paradise, yes indeed. I went there from the Kona Community Hospital (home of many wonderful people, one of whom spurred me to restart this website); prior to that, I was with Greater Lynn Emergency Physicians (I would say something nice here, but I haven't spoken with anyone there in a long time, so I know little about how they are now). Prior to that, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which was a nice job teaching at Harvard Medical School (people where I now work are really impressed by that, I find. Personally, I wasn't so much impressed as aghast. Harvard, for the junior faculty, can be a training ground, a horrible experience, or proof of the existence of God. For me, a and b about cover it; I learned a lot, and decided I didn't want to give Harvard what it wanted: my life and soul. Before that, a one year stint at the Washington Hospital Center, and before that, residency.
We'll tackle college and medical school, etc. forwards, less confusion that way. I went to Tufts University undergrad and graduate school. I left with a BS in Chemistry and History, and an MS in inorganic physical chemistry. I learned a lot, and didn't learn some important things-we'll get to that. Then a year of immunology research at Channing Laboratory, working for Dr. Nancy Levy, a brilliant lady, who went into the private sector some years after I left, good for her. I then went to Boston University School of Medicine where I learned a lot more, but still missed some important stuff. Did my residency first in surgery here, then in emergency medicine here, back when it was called the Boston City Hospital, which is what I still call it ("Boston Medical Center", my ass. The name Boston City Hospital has a tradition dating back into the untracked past of service, research excellence, and teaching a group which goes on to be leaders in their fields. The so-called Boston Medical Center has squat, except it is free of the civil service, which I agree is a Good Thing. But...ah, to hell with it. They're not going to change it back just because I say it's a good idea). In any event, I graduated from the BCH Emergency Medicine Residency in 1995, and went on to the jobs noted above.
I got married just after graduate school. For the record, I was much too young to get married. I was also much too stupid. I have since remedied both of those problems, to my sometime regret, but the failure of my marriage is at least as much due to my faults and errors as it is to anything my ex-wife did. This needs to be here for some quixotic reason of my own.
I currently live in Somerville, MA, in solitary splendor; previously I lived in Quincy (where I still work), with Jay Sekora, a wonderful housemate. I have a lovely partner, (who doesn't have a web site, although she does have a LiveJournal, where she is "mud_puppy"). She is a graduate student in Business Administration at Brandeis University. I think she's marvelous, and I love her very much.
I am polyamorous. Polyamory means "many loves", and is meant by many, (including me) to mean the ability or desire to maintain more than one romantic relationship at any given time. The current cultural norm, a least in the US, is that one should only have one romantic partner at a time, but switching frequently is OK, and cheating on your romantic partner is, if not OK, at least tacitly accepted or condoned. I (and others, it wasn't my original idea) believe that it's really better to just acknowledge that we (the lucky few?) can love more than one person romantically at any given time, and perhaps that is not a bad thing.
Here are some links to polyamory web sites, which explain this better than I can
Other things you need to know about me-I ride a motorcycle, a BMW R1100RT. I brought it to Hawaii from Boston, and brought it back from Hawaii so I could ride it across America. I really want to take more long-distance rides this summer.
Until I left Boston, I was learning to fly. I hope to get back to that sometime soon, although it's looking doubtful. I also want to learn to sail, and I belong to Community Boating, a Boston organization which encourages sailing by making sailboats and informal lessons available on the Charles river. Hell, I want to learn to do a lot of things; I can never die, because I'll never be finished :-)
That's all for now. Oh-you can see my LiveJournal here, in the event you want to read more of my drivel. I will put pictures here sometime Real Soon Now.