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DG: Well, let's talk then about your aging, work with the aging.

BU: Well, one thing is this, I have been in practice so long they all grow old, and you got to grow old with them. I'm older than a lot of patients at Keiro now, but that's all right. Because, but, you see, my two parents and Ruth's two parents were all aged when they died. They all have an influence on you and because they're older and they needed help, I took care of them. So as they grow older, they...

DG: So from the very beginning of your private practice...

BU: Yeah, private practice I took care of a lot of old people, more so than most doctors. Most doctors, they don't like to take care of old people because they never get well.

DG: But what do you think?

BU: Huh?

DG: It doesn't bother you?

BU: It didn't bother me. One of the reasons why Randy became a pediatrician is because he said, "You know, Dad, if I were to start a practice here all I would get is old people like your people, your patients." So he said he didn't like that so at least in pediatrics you're not going to see old people. Because they get well.

DG: At least to start. [Laughs]

BU: Yeah. You know what, he doesn't know that I became, one hair point is all I needed to me going into pediatrics instead of adult medicine. I was very good at pediatrics. I had almost eight months, eight, nine months of pediatrics training.

DG: So but you chose your field because...?

BU: Because I liked internal medicine so I got into internal medicine, and the other reason for it is because I got, I got sucked in nephrology, kidney disease.

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