Sunday, October 4, 2020

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Our connection to Walter Reed and Johns Hopkins started a long time ago. Our son and daughter in law both attended and graduated from Johns Hopkins. He went to the a University of Wisconsin Madison medical school, then completed his residency at the old Walter Reed, then went on to finish a cardiac surgery fellowship at Harvard/Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Before his first deployment, our grandson was born at Bethesda Naval Hospital. We moved to DC two years later. We visited the old Walter Reed to see our son’s office and the hospital, and also brought out of town guests there to visit the army museum filled with interesting medical artifacts and oddities. Eventually the old Walter Reed merged with the Naval Hospital to become the state of the art military medical center. Before our family moved to Virginia from DC a few years ago our son drove from Capitol Hill to Bethesda every day for work as a cardiac surgeon until he retired as a colonel after twenty one years in the army and three deployments. All the news lately reminds us of the places that are all too familiar to us. You could consider it a six degrees of separation scenario. We haven’t driven by the place since 2019 and when we do I always send a photo to them as a reminder. How time flies. 








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