I went to Centenary College. I studied
natural science there.   I graduated there
in 1960 and then I went to medical
school in New Orleans graduated there in
1964.   After that I came here and did an
internship at a first year in pediatrics
and then after that I went and did a
second year pediatrics at Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston and then an
allergy fellowship in Houston finishing
that in 1968 starting here than in
practice in 1969.
I love taking care of people with asthma. 
It's a real challenge.  It's like uncovering one
mystery after another until you parse
out what is actually triggering off a
patient's problems and issues.  Once
you're able to do that,  you can help
somebody.
Well, I think Belichick who is a famous
immunologist many decades ago said first
the patient, second the patient,  third the
patient,  fourth the patient,  and fifth the
patient that's what's important and what I do.   Being able to spend the time to
listen to the patient is really the
secret practicing good allergy.
It's very important what the story is.
Sometimes the perceptions are correct,
sometimes the perceptions are not.
Sometimes there are other associated
things out there that we need to ask
about that the patient doesn't think
about that may have actually triggered
the problem rather than what they
thought it was.  We have to be careful
how we interpret the information.
That's the value of talking to
the patient.
I listen to what they had to say because
the story that they're going to give me
will probably lead me to making the
right decision.   I see a wide range of
allergic issues and asthma.  It's
asthma even some COPD, problems with
cough,  exercise-induced bronchospasm,
allergic rhinitis,  larger conjunctivitis,
urticaria,  angioedema, food allergies,
drug allergies and insect sting allergies.   All
of those those things and also things
that masquerade as allergies and that's
part of the reason we have to sift
through a lot of data to understand
what's actually going on with a patient.
I love what I do.  I love the people I see.
i love the challenges that I face every
day.  Medicine is evolving so rapidly that
there's always a change.  There's always
some new mystery need to deal with and
some new way to interact with people and
help them get along in life a little bit
better than they were before they ran
into you.  I like that part of medicine.
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