Having been a continuously licensed and certified Physician Assistant for since 1984, Robert has enjoyed an expanding and varied work environment, from ER medicine as part of a 4 PA group that operated the ER 24/7, to owning a family practice in a small town of Maine. He also has worked in Occupational Medicine, and family practice. In 2001 he began doing remote medicine in Alaska, working with physicians who at times were 2000 miles away. This type of work demands a skilled practitioner who is confident of what he does not know, and when to call for help, rather than an over-confident clinician who puts patients at risk for ego reasons.Robert began his love of adventures early, inspired and encouraged by his dad. An active member of the Boy Scouts, he became an Eagle Scout, later an assistant scoutmaster and recalls scouting fondly. Becoming a licensed private pilot was an early goal, achieved in 1969, and the purchase of his first (of subsequent 6 airplanes) was a thrill. Travel became a passion that lead to entering the United States Peace Corps, in the first Kenya Agricultural Project, of 1969. He has since been back to Kenya and East Africa many times, and for a short while he and his wife took tourists there on safaris, as a sustainable way to improve the success of conservation efforts there.In Maine, Robert practiced in the small town of Rangeley, building the practice in a rural health center, chairing a committee that built a state of the art health center, and worked solo while increasing the practice to the size required for addition of a physician. He donated 3 acres of land to the construction of the Rangeley Region Health Center.Always a strong patient advocate, and caring professional, he parted ways after reporting a patient complaint about a dentist to Maine Medicaid, advocating for a patient. He was fired from Rangeley Region Health Center on Good Friday, 1998 and opened his own practice 4 weeks later to the day.