#43 My Father the Pediatrician

I recently wrote a new book geared to help parents have more meaningful conversations with their pediatrician and which will hopefully save them a copay or two as well!  As I reflect back on the five year journey in writing this book, I wanted to highlight the contributions of my biggest influence – my dad.In the summer of 1973, my father, thirty years at the time, boarded a plane with his best friend to fly overseas for the very first time in his life.  Having recently finished medical school and his mandatory army training in South Korea, he was headed to the United States to begin his residency in Passaic, New Jersey.  He would leave his recently betrothed and pregnant wife behind to pave the way for a better life in the land of opportunity.On a layover in Tokyo, a fancy new camera caught my dad’s eye.  Japan at the time was light years ahead of Korea in terms of technology and my father reckoned that electronics were cheaper in Tokyo than they would be in New Jersey.  He and his friend saw an easy opportunity to arbitrage a quick profit and spent what little money they had in hopes of selling the camera as soon as they immigrated into the States.  As fate would have it, the camera was cheaper in America – is a good deal ever to be found at the airport other than possibly duty-free goods?With even less money now but a fancy state-of-the-art camera to chronicle his adventures, my father began working long hours and preparing for the ...
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