Monday, September 17, 2007
Medicine, Moose and Me (ur, I mean...Us!)
I just had to steal that title above- its from a talk given by one of our RCS students who just returned from an Option in Ontario, Canada last month.
Headline:
Stonington
Island Family Medicine hires new physician
Now that it official, I can announce our plans for January 08. We are moving to Maine, where I will be joining Island Family Medicine, in the beautiful seaside town of Stonington. Well, I assume its beautiful- that's what everybody tells me. I have never been there!
Vicki and I were married in Maine back in the time of the dinosaurs, and have returned regularly to visit family, and enjoy the views from her cousins' homes in Belfast. We had always talked about moving there one day. So beginning last year, I chatted with a recruiter from the Maine Medical Recruitment Center, sponsored by the state hospital association. We talked about what I was looking for in a practice, and the type of community we would like to join.
Once we arrived here in Australia, we began to explore the options in more depth, and the practice in Stonington really seemed to fit. Several months ago, we scheduled a videoconference interview. This took some planning, due to the 12 hour time difference. We turned on our machine at 7 pm and said "Good morning" to the people in Stonington! We talked for over an hour, and things just seemed to click.
We are both very excited about the move. Vicki is anticipating lupines, pie contests, blueberries, bell buoys and lighthouses. Both of us think snow sounds great (101 F today!). I am looking forward to returning to a full time private practice. I know the people of Stonington will have much to teach me about their community. I'm hopeful I can apply some of the theory I have been teaching my students for so many years in a real practice again. And we are looking forward to joining a very interesting community- at least that's how it seems reading the local paper!
I have long been a believer that when a door opens to a new life, or new experience, best to just take a deep breath, and like the pelican, fall. [Jan 2,2007]
Its going to be great.
Read the article in the Island Ad-Vantages newspaper here: http://www.islandadvantages.com/ianewsfeature1.html
Headline:
Stonington
Island Family Medicine hires new physician
Now that it official, I can announce our plans for January 08. We are moving to Maine, where I will be joining Island Family Medicine, in the beautiful seaside town of Stonington. Well, I assume its beautiful- that's what everybody tells me. I have never been there!
Vicki and I were married in Maine back in the time of the dinosaurs, and have returned regularly to visit family, and enjoy the views from her cousins' homes in Belfast. We had always talked about moving there one day. So beginning last year, I chatted with a recruiter from the Maine Medical Recruitment Center, sponsored by the state hospital association. We talked about what I was looking for in a practice, and the type of community we would like to join.
Once we arrived here in Australia, we began to explore the options in more depth, and the practice in Stonington really seemed to fit. Several months ago, we scheduled a videoconference interview. This took some planning, due to the 12 hour time difference. We turned on our machine at 7 pm and said "Good morning" to the people in Stonington! We talked for over an hour, and things just seemed to click.
We are both very excited about the move. Vicki is anticipating lupines, pie contests, blueberries, bell buoys and lighthouses. Both of us think snow sounds great (101 F today!). I am looking forward to returning to a full time private practice. I know the people of Stonington will have much to teach me about their community. I'm hopeful I can apply some of the theory I have been teaching my students for so many years in a real practice again. And we are looking forward to joining a very interesting community- at least that's how it seems reading the local paper!
I have long been a believer that when a door opens to a new life, or new experience, best to just take a deep breath, and like the pelican, fall. [Jan 2,2007]
Its going to be great.
Read the article in the Island Ad-Vantages newspaper here: http://www.islandadvantages.com/ianewsfeature1.html
