I entered medical school after spending time in military service (USMC) and traveling and working for several years. I had the good fortune to study at a wonderful medical school, to find my calling in medicine was pediatrics, and to train and practice for 14 years with great specialists in that field in Washington, DC, then in Maywood, Illinois for 15 years. My focus was pediatric infectious diseases, which fascinate me, but I now apply that to the practice of general pediatrics.