The-Ave.US

THE Ave again has a sister site.   My South Carolinian brother in law, William Quick had created the site and then abruptly took it down.  Now it is back.  Though he has deleted previous  content, at least some of that content and the tone can be seen on the new incarnation of the site.

CLICK the image to link to Bill’s blog .. “Steve Shit.”

This site is creatively called “Steve Shits.”

For those who like to engage in family feuds, y’all are more than welcome to visit Dr. Quick’s ouvre.  It may give you a feel for some of the ongoing feud that has elicited some of my (SMS) posts here.   At one point my wife and I were subjected to hundreds of emails with much the same voice .. though often including obscenities,  personal attacks and threats of law suits.

The Steve Shits site is very much in that spirit, including raising the issue of my brother’s stated intent to destroy the Buchenwald pictures left by my father.  You can read all I have to say by using the Tag “Buchenwald” associated with this post.  Otherwise, Bill knows very well that the case in now before a judge, with his wife Stephanie and our brother Hugh as the defendants.   The goal of the case is to force Hugh and Stephanie to comply with the signed agreements, stop Hugh’s efforts to destroy the pictures, and make them widely available via gifting them a museum or university.  Suffice it to say, I am represented in that court of law by an excellent attorney and have no intention of rising to Bill’s bait by discussing the legal  issues in public.

While I have no intent to respond to Bill on the subject now in court, any reader who wishes to do so is free to do so here.

Unfortunately, Bill has chosen not to allow comments on the Steve Shit blog.  Since I know he is an avid reader of THE-Ave.US I suggest that you may want to post any comments here.  As usual THE Ave is uncensored as long as a comment or p0st does not violate the law or normal standards of civility. 

One small bit of response to his attack on my career in pathology.   I am very proud of career in biology and find it rather hurtful that Bill summarizes that by identifying me as an “unlicensed Pathologist.”  The truth, as he knows, is that the only time I have practiced pathology was brief stint in the United States Navy during Vietnam.  I now hold the rank of Commander, USNR and Professor of Pathology, with adjuncts in Medicine and Bioengineering.

The truth is that my parents wanted me to go to med school and because of them I majored in biology at Harvard College.  During that time I debated becoming a historian but prepared for medical school to fulfill their wish.  In college,  I was able to work in the laboratory of Keith Porter, the father of electron microscopy and one of the 20th century’s great cell biologists.  Dr. Porter was (and continues to be) a huge inspiration and that time led to my decision to abandon history for biology as a career.

Vietnam intervened.  The doctor draft would have sent me to ‘Nam as a  physician in the field.  Being a poorly trained, raw med school graduate, I was not prepared to treat wounded soldiers on the battlefield.  On Dr. Porter’s advice I decided to do a pathology residency in Seattle, then the best place to study the biology of disease while getting a specialty deferment to keep me out of Vietnam.  During that five year  residency deferment, I spent most of my time earning my second doctorate … a PhD in experimental pathology.

I did take the exams to get a license and scored very high.  I also served on active duty in the US Navy medical corps.  I decided, however, not to get a medical license because it did not seem appropriate for me as a basic scientist to somehow also pretend to be a practicing physician.

It took many years for my Dad to understand my decision not to follow in his footsteps   At least that is what I thought.  Then friends at Boston University, where my Dad practiced, told me of the proud stories my Dad told of me!  I feel the same pride in my Dad’s career.