James Swartz

well, a long one, went to school for 10 years with only about 8 or 9 semesters off, including summer semesters,
aas macomb comm college 1992
aa edison comm college in florida 1995
bs university 1996
master's in physician assistant studies at university of florida college of medicine, go gators!!! 1999,
10 years flew by fast, whew!!!

a bit about me: i have health issues, that is the reason i love medicine so much, i am a professional patient, but then again, calculus nipped engineering in the bud! hehehe, i never served in the military but with 3 permanent medical rejections on my entrance physical they would be pretty desperate! so now i have the next best thing, i take care of the veterans that did/do serve, i work for the department of veteran's affairs at an outpatient clinic in gaylord MI in the great white north,
crohn's disease for those that want to know, took them 13 years,several surgeries and 22 endoscopic procedures to find that out, yep, i am a professional patient,

ps please don't judge me by the shorthand typing, all of our pt charts are puterized so i type all day, so i use shortcuts whenever i can,

kind of hung with hippie friends but also a few people from electrical classes,
i only talk with kim shope on a regular basis, other than jeff krumpholz who i found by accident working at a bank! whoever hired him did not know jeff during high school, hehehe, i know of jeff's weakness ie soft side, ask him sometime about creative writing class!!!
i have odd memories of parking outside autoshop before the first bell, ran the heat with the defroster on and all the windows fogged over and when the door opened it was like a scene from a cheech and chong movie, i never had to smoke, had enough second hand exposure, funny thing, i still do not drink or do any drugs (not prescribed, hehe),
i ran into melissa macdonald, heard she married vansickle,