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I became interested in medico-legal matters and the rights of patients participating in medical research, medical ethics, and the societal burden of medical services, particularly at end of life. Along with similarly interested attorneys, clergymen, physicians, ethicists, and nurses, I led seminars over several years along the general theme of "Who lives…who dies…who decides…who pays?" |
Judy did most of the heavy lifting in terms of child care. She coached the piano practicing, guided the algebra homework, and drove the soccer and ballet circuit for what seemed like decades. She obviously did a great job, producing an English teacher, a work force development specialist and a gastroenterologist, and, indirectly, six adorable grandchildren. I must not have been as effective in the driver education department, as it seemed our children generated more than our share of speeding tickets, scraped doors, mangled side view mirrors and toppled mailboxes. |
After the last medical school tuition was paid and the last child walked down the aisle, we decided that we wanted to change our life style. We traded in our sixty-hour work week, four bedroom and den home, riding mower and garden for a high rise apartment overlooking Lake Michigan back in Chicago. I became a locum tenens physician----going from practice to practice on a temporary basis, filling in for vacationing physicians or understaffed practices. I only took selected short term assignments; it was Hawaii in the winter, New Hampshire in the fall, Wisconsin in the spring, New Mexico, Seattle, Wyoming and elsewhere in between. For over three years we combined travel and a non-stress work load, leaving plenty of time to explore each area in depth. |
We fully retired from work in 2004. We travel, (the attached pictures were taken on our recent trip to New Zealand and Australia), go to theater, concerts, galleries, and museums, do a little photography, bicycle along the lakefront, take piano lessons (without having to be reminded to practice), swim or work out at the gym, and do a fair amount of grandchild care and 'continuing intellectual enrichment'. Judy continues her interests in needle crafts and volunteers in the Chicago Public Schools. |