I grew up on a farm in rural America, moved to Chicago for medical school, and now work in an emergency room in New York City. I'm fairly aerodynamic, fairly well-read, and fairly well-traveled. I value good conversation and am skeptical of traditional authority.

Interests

My next known trip:
September to December 2018: Guatemala, Colombia, Bolivia

• literature
• coach
• music
• soccer
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Tool, A Perfect Circle, The Mars Volta, Bright Eyes, TV on the Radio, Cursive, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Mastodon, Protest the Hero, Pantera, Rage Against the Machine, Tom Waits, Black Keys, Blond Redhead, Alice in Chains

Books:
The Man Without Qualities, Lolita, Infinite Jest, Ferdydurke, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Catch-22, Brave New World, House of Leaves, Everything Is Illuminated, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, The Sound and the Fury, The Idiot, Notes from Underground, Slaughterhouse-Five, News: The Politics of Illusion, The Sleepwalkers, Gravity's Rainbow

Movies:
Fight Club, Mulholland Drive, Taxi Driver, Sin City, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rang de Basanti, Bubba Ho-Tep, Memento, The Jerk, Pulp Fiction, It's Such a Beautiful Day

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I resuscitated a random woman late at night in Dijon, France, before I actually knew what I was doing. But hey, it worked.

Also, playing soccer on the tops of mountains with a bunch of Peruvian village kids in the Andes was pretty awesome. Medical mission trips can be a great time.

Teach, Learn, Share

It may sound boring to plenty of people, but I can talk for hours about health policy--and probably good music and literature, as well.

I think I make a pretty good life coach, too. Bring it on.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Malta, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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