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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
 Dr. Bill Booth
Dr. Bill Booth is a native of Marshall, Texas, where he graduated from high school in 1959 before moving to Louisiana. There, he completed undergraduate studies, with a major in premed and a minor in English, at McNeese State University and University of Southwestern Louisiana. He started medical school in 1962 at LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, where he subsequently trained in general surgery. Medical school and residency training were interrupted by a two year tour of duty in the Navy, which included a year aboard the hospital ship USS Sanctuary in Vietnam.Following residency training, Dr. Booth practiced general surgery for twenty-eight years, first in a rural community in southeast Missouri, then in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he retired in 2001. After retiring from surgical practice, Dr. Booth was able to focus on the completion of a novel that had long been churning in his mind concerning events that might occur if a surgeon should contract the HIV virus in the course of his work. The result was Blood of a Stranger, published by Author House in August of 2007. In addition to his first novel, Booth has begun a second novel and completed several short stories that he plans to publish in the near future.
Bill and Cherry, his wife of 45 years, have four adult children and five grandchildren. They now live in the mountains of north Georgia where he writes, ties flies, and plays golf. He still practices medicine part-time at Good Samaritan Health and Wellness Center, a free clinic in Jasper, Georgia.
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