I was born in Raleigh in the old Hayes Barton neighborhood. I had two brothers and a sister and my my father was an optometrist who had an office in downtown Raleigh. When World War 11 broke out my parents decided to move to the country and they bought a small farm outside of town. That was where I lived until I went off to college. We had chickens, pigs, a big garden in the summer time, and ponies for my brother Bob and I to ride all over the neighborhood. We went to church at a small country church near the farm. I graduated from high school and decided to go to Wake Forest College when the school was in the town of Wake Forest. I was suppose to go to optometry school after college and take over my dad's practice, but I had always wanted to be a family doctor so after three years of premed I applied and was accepted to Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston Salem. After med school I interned at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, did some residency training in psychiatry at State Hospital, and then joined the Army for two years. I became the Commanding officer of the 760th Medical Detachment in Orleans, France, learned to speak French and travel all over Europe. I went back to Grady for additional training in Pediatrics and then came back to Raleigh and became the first Emergency Room physician at what was then Wake Memorial Hospital, now Wake Med. I opened my practice on July 2, 1962 and have been in practice ever since and have no intention of retiring any time soon. I enjoy seeing patients and helping them to feel better.
My nurse is Martha Thornton who has been with me for five years. Martha lives in Knightdale with her husband and daughter Hayley who sometimes helps us in the office. Martha has been a nurse for over thirty years and loves our patients.