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126 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K A F T E R G R A D U A T I N G F R O M Antioch in 1965, I remained in Ohio and entered Case Western Reserve Medical School.“Reserve,” as it was known at the time (prior to the merger of Western Reserve with CaseTech) was in a way the Antioch of med schools. It was progressive, non-traditional and experimen- tal in its curriculum. After my first year in med school, I spent the sum- mer working for the federal govern- ment. It was 1966 and Medicare had just been passed. Many of the hos- pitals in the South, particularly the rural ones, had not been in compli- ance with Civil Rights Act of 1965, since the government had little le- verage to enforce it. However when Medicare was passed, the hospitals would not be eligible to participate, i.e., receive money, unless they were in compliance.This resulted in in a hurried effort to eliminate all segre- gated facilities. The Social Security Administration was charged with in- specting hospitals for compliance. The effort was augmented by medi- cal students for the summer. I was assigned to Alabama and Mississippi. It was an eye-opening experience, having never spent much time in the South.We met with many hospi- tal administrators, a few of whom ap- peared to be sincerely trying to elim- inate separate facilities, and many others who were going through the motions. By the end of the summer most of the hospitals were declared “in compliance.” I returned to Cleveland that September to begin my second year of med school. As we all remember the next three years were far from “normal.” Cleveland was not a hot- bed of antiwar protests, but we had our share. One of the most promi- nent leaders of the antiwar move- ment in Cleveland at that time was one of our most well-known profes- sors, Dr. Benjamin Spock. After graduating from CWRU in 1969, I had had my fill of Ohio and moved to Boston to start Internship at Boston City Hospital. I spent the next two years there where I learned how to be a doctor by in- tense hands-on training. It is amaz- ing and appalling to me and current medical interns how much loosely supervised care we provided to a mostly indigent population. After my second year at Boston City, I planned to spend what would now be called a gap year in Africa and specifically in Nigeria working a rural hospital. Unfortunately that was shortly after the Biafra War and the Nigerian government was wary of any foreigners spending time there. I waited for months of bureau- cratic run-around and obfuscation for a visa but in the end was unable to obtain one. I went back to Boston City where I finished residency in in- ternal medicine. I spent the next two years do- ing a fellowship in cardiology, split betweenTufts New England Medical Center and Boston University Hospital. I then ventured out in to the world of medical practice. After a brief stay in Manchester, N.H., I landed in Lowell Mass., where I started a solo practice in cardiol- ogy affiliated with Lowell General Hospital. I remained in Lowell for the next 35-plus years practicing medicine. During that time I was in- volved in a number of positions at the hospital, started a small group practice and had the opportunity to meet and hopefully help many won- derful patients. I didn’t write any books or achieve national recogni- tion, but I enjoyed a very rewarding career. I retired in May 2012. I met my future wife, Denise (Peg), at Lowell General Hospital where she was working as a nurse. We were married in 1978. We had two children, Rachel born in 1980 and Aaron 1984. Rachel graduated from Vassar College and is working in the Boston area as a software con- sultant in a division of IBM. Aaron graduated from Williams College. PINSKY LINCOLN THEN AND NOW 4 B.A. 4 M.D., Case Western Reserve Medical School FAMI LY 4 Wife, Denise (Peg) 4 Children, Rachel and Aaron, deceased ADDRESS 4 105 Fifty Acre Way Carlisle, MA 01741-1534 CONTACT 978 337-5544 lincoln.pinsky@gmail.com P I N S K Y A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z