During his 27 years in the Navy, he operated aboard hospital ships, including one off the coast of Vietnam. As surgery chief at Bethesda Naval Hospital, he treated VIPs, including a president and first lady or two. Sen. Robert C. Byrd was one of his patients. So was Mrs. Anwar Sadat. Her autographed portrait sits in his office. When a specialists group lured him to Charleston as staff surgeon in 1983, he insisted on a stipulation that allowed him to spend half his time teaching.
And that was a NICE restaurant!“The person who was number two in my department wanted me to leave so he could have my job. So he came out here and interviewed with Hygeia, a group of family doctors in Whitesville and Oceana and other areas. He talked them into asking me out for an interview for a surgical specialty.
“As you came down I-79 as you got closer to Charleston in the middle of July, the miserable chemical smell hit you. My first impression was Charleston smells like a sewer. The second impression was, I was invited out to dinner at a very nice restaurant, except that the cockroaches were dropping off the walls onto the tables. I was wondering what I got myself into."
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