Lawrence Schrader:  

Life As it is said "Life is what happens while you are making plans". I feel like I am still on a treadmill. I graduated from UC Irvine, "Go Anteaters", where I was an All-American in track and field and we won an NCAA National Championship. I married and went to San Francisco for 10 years to train as an Orthopedic Surgeon. I had 3 boys by then and moved to a group practice in Santa Cruz . I spent time in Iraq in 1990 and 1991 and jumped out of planes for the Army. In 1994 my group began to sell out to a hostile take over, which I led the fight against. Needless to say I lost, and needed to look elsewhere to earn a living. I ended up in Tennessee where Medicine is even more corrupt. However God had plans for me. I did the unheard of and started a Solo Practice. There wasn't much money so my wife of 24 years divorced me, and then I found the Right woman. We married in 2003 and now I have two more boys to raise. I developed (with others) a new way to do knee replacements on an outpatient basis requireing no rehabilitation. Being a "foreigner" in The South where medicine is about 30 years behind these new ideas generally keep me shunned by my colleagues. I am busy as can be with patients coming from all over the United States for me to do their surgery. I do about 8 a week of these procedures and virtually all of my patients are referred by other patients. I am Chief of Surgery at Delta Medical Center in Memphis. My wife Kathy manages...Expand for more