Harold Pretorius:  

CLASS OF 1967
West High SchoolClass of 1967
Torrance, CA

Harold's Story

Always wanted to be a doctor so I did become one (M.D.,Ph.D., now endocrinologist). Long road (via LSU, USC, NYU) to get there and longer road after (via NIH, USAF, UCSD, Univ. Rochester, mostly private practice in Cincinnati). Also married a doctor, from Barcelona, Spain (sounds romantic?, well, SHE is, e.g. refused to come back to states with me unless I took her to Paris first) and have two sons. One played tennis much better than I did although my claim to tennis fame (not much of it) was making the Air Fore National team at age 34 years, so far as I know oldest ever to do that. As you might expect, I played last man on the team and didn't do much damage other than to my own racquets (not breaking them, just at that age it takes a lot of practice, which wears out racquets, to pretend to compete with the younger guys), although quite successful in coaching our younger troops who won both men's and women's singles that year. Check out my website DrPretorius.com to see what I do these days. Probably not on the site: I recently p...Expand for more
atented a supplement drink to make people smarter: sounds like a joke but it's not, others published widely on web in a double blind, controlled study (these are supposed to be true most of the time) that it only takes 90 minutes to get smarter after drinking one of the ingredients in my supplement, currently named Brain Circulation Enhancer. I'm proud of staff that work hard with me. We have a PET scanner which is pretty amazing and if you have any idea what they cost you will realize I'm pretty broke. If you have a head injury and need a PET or SPECT functional brain scan maybe I'm your man: also sounds like a joke but isn't. We reported on over 300 patients with traumatic brain injury at AACE (number one endocrinology association world wide) and got first prize for best abstract there last year. So I keep trying to do new things or at least relatively new even if the truth is that it is hard to get close to anything new because usually not many have been there and almost all of us need somebody to show the way. . . .
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