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Jeffrey Newhouse, M.D.

 

It seems that school has never really stopped.  Four
years with Mike Esmay at Princeton, another four at Harvard
Medical School, one (a trial by fire, mostly) as a surgical
intern in New York, and then four more training as a radiologist
at the Mass. General Hospital in Boston.  Two in the Army (Walter
Reed, in D.C.) teaching radiology, and then back to the MGH for
another decade of more teaching.  Moved to Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center in '83 (teaching, again) where I still seem to be.
 I note - ruefully - that I was born here, and, if I'm not
careful, may die here, just to complete some circle or other. 
Academics has never stopped being fun; it's like having an
endless stream of kids who keep you entertained and never ask for
the car. 

I married (at 40; tentativity was my middle name) Nancy Hargadon,
which has turned out to be the best bit of luck I ever had.  We
have two kids; Amy's a sophomore at Cornell, where, she says, she
keeps seeing the initials "JP" and "DP" carved on various bars,
and Ted, who's happiest doing things with a lacrosse stick or a
squash racket. 

My parents stayed in their Nyack house for the rest of their
lives, so we had reason to drive there until just a couple of
years ago.  The town seems to do strange things: some of it
continually evolves and some never changes at all, and I like the
emotional mixing of present and past which results.  So does my
sister Alison (some of you may remember her), who lives in Boston
with her husband, who grew up in Lake Wobegon, became a
radiologist (one of my mentors), retired, and now paints. 
Alison's childhood ambition was to become a combination
librarian, gardener and lighthouse keeper, and she's nearly done
it. 
 

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