Hello! I am Eric Schendel, owner of The Lifestyle Doctor. I am a personal technology consultant and I also teach people how to successfully run a business from their home on their computer. Here is a brief summary of my background and interests.
My family moved down to Mexico when I was seven and we lived there eleven years, mostly in a little town called San Miguel de Allende. When we returned to the States we settled in Texas where I completed high school and attended college and medical school. In 1984, I fell in love with computers and what they could do to improve the practice of medicine. My first computer was a KayPro II and my second was a PC clone made by Heath, which came in a kit which had to be assembled—I even had to solder the components onto the circuit boards! Later I joined a locum tenens company (medical temporary agency) so that I could complete a Ph.D. in bioengineering with a major in computerized medical diagnostics. Now Big Planet offers me a chance to share some of my computer knowledge and my passion for technology with other people.
I live in Seattle with my wife Fionnuala and our son Keith. Recreational interests include writing, skiing, sailing, hiking and traveling.
4/11/02 Michael Crichton ’64, HMS ’69 speaks on “The Media and Medicine” at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA on Thursday, April 11, 2002. staff photo by Jon Chase/Harvard University News Office
John Michael Crichton (/ˈkraɪtən/; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American writer and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres.
John Michael Crichton[1] was born on October 23, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois,[2][3][4][5] to John Henderson Crichton, a journalist, and Zula Miller Crichton, a homemaker. He was raised on Long Island, in Roslyn, New York,[1] and he showed a keen interest in writing from a young age; at 16, he had an article about a trip he took to Sunset Crater published in The New York Times.[6][7]
Crichton later recalled, “Roslyn was another world. Looking back, it’s remarkable what wasn’t going on. There was no terror. No fear of children being abused. No fear of random murder. No drug use we knew about. I walked to school. I rode my bike for miles and miles, to the movie on Main Street and piano lessons and the like. Kids had freedom. It wasn’t such a dangerous world… We studied our butts off, and we got a tremendously good education there.”[8]
Crichton had always planned on becoming a writer and began his studies at Harvard College in 1960.[6] During his undergraduate study in literature, he conducted an experiment to expose a professor who he believed was giving him abnormally low marks and criticizing his literary style.[9]: 4 Informing another professor of his suspicions,[10] Crichton submitted an essay by George Orwell under his own name. The paper was returned by his unwitting professor with a mark of “B−”.[11] He later said, “Now Orwell was a wonderful writer, and if a B-minus was all he could get, I thought I’d better drop English as my major.”[8] His differences with the English department led Crichton to switch his undergraduate concentration. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in biological anthropologysumma cum laude in 1964[12] and was initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.[12] He received a Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship from 1964 to 1965 and was a visiting lecturer in anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 1965.[12] Crichton later enrolled at Harvard Medical School.[9][page needed] Crichton later said “about two weeks into medical school I realized I hated it. This isn’t unusual since everyone hates medical school – even happy, practicing physicians.”[13]
According to Crichton’s brother Douglas, Crichton was diagnosed with lymphoma in early 2008.[118] In accordance with the private way in which Crichton lived, his cancer was not made public until his death. He was undergoing chemotherapy treatment at the time of his death, and Crichton’s physicians and relatives had been expecting him to recover. He died at age 66 on November 4, 2008.
You have asked for a description of my hobbies. Here it is. The list would be: Computer, drawing, writing, walking, playing piano, creating jewelry, supporting church music. (Maybe I forgot some hobbies which I am doing less often).
The most important hobby I have made my profession since 1996 is programming of computers. And here first of all the application of medical knowledge.
A typical sort of “cross validation” of Laboratory results is: A patient serum has Measles-IgG positive and Measles-IgM negative; my program writes a validation: Former measles infection or vaccination. No sign of an acute infection.
Another example: The result is Chlamydia-IgG negative and Chlamydia-IgM positive+: Suspect of acute Chlamydia infection if also Chlamydia-IgG goes up after control, otherwise unspecific reaction. Occasionally cross-reaction with Chlamydia pneumoniae and psittaci.
Drawing: Mostly I am doing it during holidays (not even every time). It makes me forget everything around. During our holiday in Fuerteventura I made this drawing (pencil and ink. I also like to combine cole and ink.
