Bernard Atwell:
CLASS OF 1970
Woodham High SchoolClass of 1970
Pensacola, FL
Brentwood Junior High SchoolClass of 1967
Pensacola, FL
Brentwood Elementary SchoolClass of 1964
Pensacola, FL
Bernard's Story
Bernard is from Pensacola, Florida. He is married to Alina Franco Atwell. His schools include Woodham High School 1070. He Took a summer course in welding right after High School and worked in a local machine shop hoping to become engineer. In 1972 he decided that he would rather pursue a carrier in science and got his Bachelors in biology from The University of West Florida (UWF) in 1974.He then attended Baptist Hospital School of Medical Technology and became a Board Certified Medical Technologist MT(ASCP). He then married the girl of his dreams in 1976 and enjoyed life for a year., After that he went back to UWF to get a Bachelors Degree in Chemistry(1980) trying to get accepted to the University of Florida School of Medicine where he did get his Doctorate of Medicine in 1984. After that he successfully completed 2 years of a 4 year Anatomical and Clinical Pathology intern...Expand for more
ship and residency at USA in Mobile Alabama. Then he changed his focus again and competed a 3 year Pediatric internship and residency (1986-1989) in Pensacola. Since that time and until he retired in 2006 he maintained his private practice and was one of the founding partners in what is now known as Pensacola Pediatrics, He was also the Medical Director of Northwest Florida Crippled Children's Home until he retired due to illness in 2006. The children of the Crippled Children's Home have all grown old and now is called New Horizons where he is on the Board of Directors He still maintains his license to practice medicine and but so on a volunteer basis. He says " HE IS ILL BUT NOT IMPAIRED, SICK BUT NOT STUPID, DISABLED BUT NOT DEAD."
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One of Bernard's favorite quotes is:"As flies unto wanton boys are we unto the Gods. They kill us for their sport".
William Shakespeare".
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