Dr. Nicol Looks Back

About the Book

I remember many of the kids I knew in my neighborhoods in Little Rock and Blytheville, Arkansas, my ten and a half months in the Army Air Forces in World War II, my two and a half years at Texas A&M College, my four years in medical school in Galveston, Texas, my internship at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver, Colorado, my training as an Air Force flight surgeon at Randolph AFB, Texas, my service for seven months as an aviation medical examiner at the Air-Ground Operations School in Southern Pines, North Carolina, my two years in solo general practice in Carthage, North Carolina, my one year as a flight surgeon at Bolling AFB, Washington, DC, my three and a half years as a resident at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, in the Department of Otolaryngology, and my four years as Chief of Otolaryngology and flight surgeon at Travis AFB, California. I have been married for 62 years to Anne Frost from Douglas, Arizona who gave me four beautiful children. Anne and I reside in Redding, California and I have been completely retired since 2000.

About the Author

I was born in El Dorado, Arkansas on August 17, 1926. In this memoir I take a look back at my first memory at age three and concluding when my family and I moved from Travis AFB, California to Redding, California in December 1964 to start a second solo practice but this time as an otolaryngologist (ENT man).