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DG: Now, we ended with your being in Korea.

BU: Coming back, yeah. I came back and then I had one more year of training to do for my board in medical internal medicine. So I came and I, because the VA Hospital is easy access because of army so, therefore, they took me in. And I spent one year, one year, and I got finished my residency training. And when I finished my residency training, the University Medical School asked me whether I wanted to take two years more fellowship in nephrology. So that was agreeable with me so I put two more years in training in nephrology, and I was part of the team that started this kidney dialysis program here. You know, it took me nineteen years of training from college to open my office.

DG: So when did you open your office?

BU: Huh? Yeah, before I could open my office.

DG: So what year was that, then?

BU: 1955. No, wait a minute. Excuse me, 1957. So it took me nineteen years before I opened the office. Ruth's complaint was gee whiz, you told me we'd be all right and raising a family and all that after, after about seven or eight years, but it took me nineteen years of training in post-graduate training in order to open an office.

DG: So where did you open your office?

BU: Right here. Well, it was right here, Fourteenth Avenue and Yesler. I opened an office and I stayed there for one year and then...

DG: So how come you opened it there?

BU: Huh?

DG: How come you opened it there?

BU: This dentist, the family had an open office there so I stayed there for one year. And then, and then this corner here, you know where State Drug Store was? Right next door was open and Lonnie Saiki, who built the building, asked me if I wanted to come in and start an office there so I said, "I'd like that. That would be nice," so I went there and I stayed there for thirty-two years.

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