Ronald Graeser

Catalina High School

Class of 1959

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Ronald Graeser - Class of 1959 - Catalina High School

First Name	Ronald
Last Name	Graeser
Graduation Year	Class of 1959
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	MI
Country	United States
Occupation	physician
About Me	This is a brief explanatory description of my professional career since graduating from medical school. In Waupun, Wisconsin I supplemented my income by giving medical care at Wisconsin's Maximum Security State Prison, and I opened my first private practice which fell flat on its face. After eight months I moved to Newaygo, Michigan where my private practice was so successful that I took on an associate after two years, and we both were very busy. He decided to pursue a more sedate life and left to enter the emerging emergency room practices that were just starting as a specialty. A year later I joined a four man practice in a nearby town because my private practice was overwhelming me. My full-time family practice during this ten years included office practice, hospital practice, obstetrics, orthopedics, pediatrics, geriatrics, intensive care, performing minor surgeries, assisting in major surgeries, nursing home care and emergency room coverage. While still practicing in Newaygo I accepted that county's medical examiner position and eventually found it so interesting that I took a four year pathology residency at GRAMEC in order to be able to practice forensic pathology in a rural setting. After the residency I held various part-time positions in general practice and occupational medicine while building a forensic practice. The part-time positions always proved to be temporary, and the forensic practice grew slowly in rural Michigan so that I was not able to take on a partner. Being alone in forensic pathology required that I remain on call continuously for sixteen years. Finally I grew weary of continuous call and discontinued that forensic practice. From 1973 till 1993 I served in the U.S. Army Reserves in the medical corps while having a full time practice as described above.. From 1986 until the present I have worked in office-based family practices, occupational medicine and emergency medicine treating patients of all ages. From July 2003 to Sept 2006 I worked with a five physician practice seeing nursing home patients exclusively. In September 2006 I discontinued practicing due to severe, debilitating, bilateral knee osteoarthritis. One month later I had both knees replaced with prostheses. By May of 2008 I had recovered so that I could resume the active practice of medicine and started a free standing outpatient clinic with markedly reduced prices catering to the uninsured who turned out to be so few in number that the practice failed for want of patients. I then worked at a high security level prison until the physician supplier who employed me lost its contract. Now I work a couple months here and a couple there in outpatient clinics in a work situation called locu...(read more)