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You blunder into the grand opening of a new hospital, sign up to volunteer and, with considerable reluctance, let yourself be assigned to the ER. What starts as a Monday evening lark eventually becomes a life-changing experience. Your new course leads from the ER to becoming a volunteer EMT and, later, a paramedic and a perennial night school student. Eventually, at an age when others might be thinking of retiring to play golf, you quit your job, move away from home, and go back to college as a physician assistant student with strangers less than half your age. This book details the often humorous experience that follows from a perspective that hopefully will help others follow their own paths, whatever they may be. Along the way, new experiences evoke old memories, while new friends, teachers, and patients teach important new lessons. The book comes full circle with a view of what it is like to be a PA, one of U.S. News & World Report's 50 hottest careers.

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Barry Brownstein is a physician assistant practicing in cardiology in Columbus, Ohio. Born in central New York State, his family later moved to Maryland, where he graduated as an engineer. After service in the air force and two graduate engineering degrees, he became an engineering manager. He and his wife Lindalee had three children and a mortgage the day they blundered into a open house for the new hospital in town. How he got from there to becoming a 60-year-old physician assistant who takes 9-1-1 runs in the middle of some nights is the subject of this book. While many other aspects of life have changed around them, Barry and Lindalee continue to live happily in Columbus. Barry can be reached at old.man.on.campus.book@gmail.com.

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