Rodney Fitzgibbon:  

After high school, I went to USC and got my BS in Biology then 1 and 1/2 years of grad school and studied and researched in nuclear medicine. I then decided to go to med school. I was accepted at MUSC and USC School of med and chose to stay at USC. Right before I started med school, Martha Patterson-class of '76, introduced me to Polly Sutcliffe. We were engaged in 3 months and married 9 months later. We just celebrated our 31st anniversary on May 22nd of 2013. We have a daughter, Jennifer age 26 and a son, Jonathan, age 23. Jennifer is in accounting with Price Waterhouse with a degree from Darla Moore School of Business. Jonathan has a double major in computer science and math and due to graduate this December( thank God!) I graduated med school in 1985, 18th in a class of 55 and went to residency in family medicine at Richland Memmorial Hospital here in Columbia. In 1988,I started my own practice, NorthEast Family Practice and I just celebrated my 25th years in the same practice and still going strong. I am working on a MBA in medical management now so we will see where that takes me. Family Practice has been great as we see all aspects of medicine from cradle to seniors and both male and female issues. I still live in Forest Acres area as it is growing and families are coming back and renovating older houses. I take care of about 50 class mates from the 70's, so we have reunions all the time. My brother Tim,class of '79, is a doctor in Family Medicine too but in Dillon,SC with his wife and three children. My father, Rodney Sr, was a long time OB/GYN in Columbia and the fir...Expand for more