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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
October 8, 2007
My family and I moved from the U.S. Navy to Bend in April 1954, and I opened my office for the practice of medicine and surgery on May 9, 1954. At the time, there were 12 physicians practicing here, but two of them were near retirement, leaving 10 active physicians, and I was No. 11. The city....