When Duffy Casey, MD (MD ’09), FACOG, was a high school senior, he was uncertain about his future. College seemed a distant dream, overshadowed by the immediate need to work multiple jobs to support his education.
“I might join the military or go to college; I’m not sure yet,” he confided one day to ‘Dr. Chuck’ — Charles Dietzen, MD, a regular customer at a coffee shop where Casey worked in the mornings before school. Dr. Chuck always arrived on his Harley motorcycle or in a Jeep Wrangler with the top down.
Dr. Chuck posed a question that would change Casey’s life: “Have you ever thought about being a doctor?”