>> I was fortunate enough to have two
first cousins that were husband and wife
who were podiatrists as well as my
father's dear friend, who was a podiatrist.
I know I wanted to be in the medical field.
I wanted to help people.
I wasn't sure if I wanted to be a dentist,
and then I thought do I really want to look
at mouths all day, and I
seemed to shun away from that.
But podiatry, I had a friend of mine
who was the Phillies' team doctor.
He talked to me about podiatry,
and it just seemed very exciting.
I visited several podiatrists
other than the ones I mentioned,
and I liked the way they were respected,
and I saw how they helped people.
One, in fact, helped me with warts I had.
So I went to pursue that career.
I liked the idea of being my own
boss, and it worked out famously.
I mean, I was lucky enough to go to a
school which I got wonderful training.
I got an excellent residency, and then
I opened up in the Philadelphia area,
had multiple offices, and made good connections,
and because of my surgical residency,
I was put in and made chief
of two local hospitals,
and then I became the residence directors,
and I love the interaction with the students.
Then I lost some of it, and like I said, in
1989, I gave up the surgical aspect of it.
I went into being an inventor.
I invented a paraffin wax bath
that I hence manufactured.
So I became a medical manufacturer.
Made a lot of wonderful contacts, and being
a podiatrist opened a lot of doors for me.
I was able to speak to the
rheumatology groups around the country.
Being a physician was a little easier for me,
them to accept me because it's heat therapy used
for arthritics, and used in a lot
of hand centers, paraffin wax.
With that being in mind, I then was contacted
by a gynecologist to get into manufacturing
of specialized gloves with oils inside.
So I became the president of that company,
and that included the skin care arena.
So I would give lectures to
cosmetologists, to aestheticians.