Gary Lavine:  

Dear classmates, Much has happened in the 26 years since graduating from Lower Merion...it has been an amazing and wonderful journey!!!! On November 4rth, election day, I will be 54 years old. It is hard to believe I am in my fifties however one thing certainly is true, as each year passes life gets better. After Lower Merion I spent one unproductive year at Penn. State Univ. I was well on my way to a degree in libations. Needles to say my aspirations to attend medical school were quickly diminishing. I transferred to Florida State University and graduated with a degree in Psychology. After a couple of years trying for medical school I finally was accepted to the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile and graduated in 1994. I completed 2 internships in Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology at SUNY Buffalo while trying to figure out which specialty I liked. I thought it was Anesthesiology and entered a residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. I became bored with Anesthesiology and decided to leave the residency to enter the real world and "moonlight" in an Emergency Department in a small South Carolina town called Walterboro. I did this for 2 years and loved the practice of Emergency Medicine and decided to finish...Expand for more