80 Poems by Two Octogenarians - Leighton, Richard

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Résumé :
The book is a book of 80 poems, half of the poems written by Dr. Leighton and half by Dr. Carlton. The poems cover topics of poetry, friends, pets and relatives, love, philosophy and teaching, health and libation, hunting and fishing, old age and death and trivia.

Biographie:
Richard F. Leighton, M.D. is a cardiologist and professor of medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah campus. He received an A.B. degree from Western Maryland College and an M.D. degree from the University of Maryland in 1955. Following an internship at University Hospital, Baltimore, he served as a U.S. Navy flight surgeon. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiology at Ohio State University where he served as a faculty member for nine years. In 1974 he was appointed Chief of Cardiology and in 1990 Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. In 1997 he relocated to Savannah, Georgia. Dr. Leighton is author of over 90 publications in the field of cardiovascular disease and of 3 recent books: Dear Folks: A Memoir from 500 Letters in 2016, From Guam and Beyond: Stories of the Men of VW-1 in 2018 and Reflections of a Hessian in 2019. His family includes 3 children, 3 grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Sommaire:
The author is a cardiologist and a professor of internal medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah campus. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Maryland and served an internship at the University Hospital in Baltimore. In the late 1950s he was a U.S. Navy flight surgeon for Airborne Early Warning Squadron One, based in Hawaii and Guam. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiology at the Ohio State University where he served as a faculty member for 9 years. In 1974 he was appointed Chief of Cardiology and in 1990 Dean of the School of Medicine at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo. In 1977 he relocated to Savannah, Georgia. Dr. Leighton is the author or coauthor of over 90 publications in the field of cardiovascular disease and of two recent books: Dear Folks: A Memoir from 500 Letters in 2016 and From Guam and Beyond: Stories of the Men of VW-1 in 2018....