How it all began -- Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1957-1961 -- The Ohio State University College of Medicine, 1961-1965 -- Orthopaedic residency, 1966-1969 -- Chief resident, 1969-1970 -- The hip fellowship in Boston, 1970 -- Return to Columbus -- A specialty practice in joint replacement -- The hip center at St. Ann's Hospital -- Home and family life -- Episodes and occurrences -- The orthopaedic manufacturing industry -- The orthopaedic speakers' circuit -- On the home front -- The entrepreneurial quest -- When systems fail -- Being fit was always fun -- My three sons, from boys to men -- A brief retirement -- They call me chief -- Now the patient -- Wrestling the gorilla -- The patient, the doctor, the lawyer -- Maybe I was poisoned -- Life comes bearing gifts