Physician would like to try being a short order cook
Each Tuesday, The Citizen features a health professional from the Finger Lakes community in The Banks: This week, we spotlight Marchall Trabout, a physician at Community Medical Center in Aurora.
Q. What is the most rewarding part of your job?
A. It certainly sounds like a cliche, but I enjoy talking with patients and assisting them with their medical problems. At the end of the day, albeit sometimes a long day, it's rewarding and I feel good about it.
Q. What is the most challenging?
A. Dealing with people, different personalities, employees and time management.
Q. What do you like most about living and working in the Finger Lakes?
A. The seasons are just beautiful, each in their own right. However, today is not a good day to ask this question.
Q. What is the best piece of advice you could give someone to stay healthy?
A. A healthy lifestyle has to include a prudent diet and regular exercise. Don't deprive yourself of the occasional dietary indiscretion. Lastly, if you failed today, start again tomorrow, whether it's your diet, exercise or smoking cessation.
Q. What's the most common misconception you hear from patients?
A. I don't know about misconceptions, but it is more difficult to treat an asymptomatic illness such as high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol as opposed to a symptomatic illness (for example, chronic lung disease or heart disease).
Q. If you weren't in the health care field, what career or field would you do?
A. If I had the talent, perhaps a singer. Maybe a short order cook.
Q. For someone considering a career like yours, what advice would you offer?
A. Make sure you enjoy medicine and are committed to it. Diversify your studies in college. There's no necessity to major in biology or chemistry. You will learn all the medicine you need in medical school.
Q. What's your ideal cure for the common cold?
A. There's no “cure,” so let's call it a treatment. But rest, fluids (perhaps chicken soup, the kind your mom made when you were sick) and most important “tincture of time” always works.
Q. Despite being in the health care field, people would probably be surprised that when I'm off the job, I _________.
A. I'm never completely off the job. Some consider my hobbies a bit risky, but it's more about relaxation and enjoyment.
Marshall Trabout
Age: 52
Family: Married with two children
Education: Case Western Reserve University; SUNY Upstate Medical, intern and residency in internal medicine at Nassau County Medical Center
Occupation: Physician, Community Medical Center, 18 Wells Road, Aurora
Hobbies: Golf, skiing, scuba and motorcycling
Q. What is the most rewarding part of your job?
A. It certainly sounds like a cliche, but I enjoy talking with patients and assisting them with their medical problems. At the end of the day, albeit sometimes a long day, it's rewarding and I feel good about it.
Q. What is the most challenging?
A. Dealing with people, different personalities, employees and time management.
Q. What do you like most about living and working in the Finger Lakes?
A. The seasons are just beautiful, each in their own right. However, today is not a good day to ask this question.
Q. What is the best piece of advice you could give someone to stay healthy?
A. A healthy lifestyle has to include a prudent diet and regular exercise. Don't deprive yourself of the occasional dietary indiscretion. Lastly, if you failed today, start again tomorrow, whether it's your diet, exercise or smoking cessation.
Q. What's the most common misconception you hear from patients?
A. I don't know about misconceptions, but it is more difficult to treat an asymptomatic illness such as high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol as opposed to a symptomatic illness (for example, chronic lung disease or heart disease).
Q. If you weren't in the health care field, what career or field would you do?
A. If I had the talent, perhaps a singer. Maybe a short order cook.
Q. For someone considering a career like yours, what advice would you offer?
A. Make sure you enjoy medicine and are committed to it. Diversify your studies in college. There's no necessity to major in biology or chemistry. You will learn all the medicine you need in medical school.
Q. What's your ideal cure for the common cold?
A. There's no “cure,” so let's call it a treatment. But rest, fluids (perhaps chicken soup, the kind your mom made when you were sick) and most important “tincture of time” always works.
Q. Despite being in the health care field, people would probably be surprised that when I'm off the job, I _________.
A. I'm never completely off the job. Some consider my hobbies a bit risky, but it's more about relaxation and enjoyment.
Marshall Trabout
Age: 52
Family: Married with two children
Education: Case Western Reserve University; SUNY Upstate Medical, intern and residency in internal medicine at Nassau County Medical Center
Occupation: Physician, Community Medical Center, 18 Wells Road, Aurora
Hobbies: Golf, skiing, scuba and motorcycling
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