He does so compelling, taking us from his early years growing up in Houston, with a colorful, loving and talented Jewish family; through his college years at Brandeis University, where his classmates called him “Tex”; medical school back in Texas; an internship in San Francisco, where he lived with another student and a pet spider monkey named Fang; residency in New York City; a stint in the U.S. Air Force in England; marriage to Valerie Dewar Searle Lewis who, after nearly 50 years together, he still continues to “strive to be worthy of”; and, finally, to Chicago, where he would work for the Sox and Bulls, be orthopedic surgeon at the Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, chief of staff at NorthShore University HealthSystem at Skokie Hospital and teacher of the year at Rush University Medical Center.
