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In December of l956, after delivering at least 5,OOO babies - and other things, he retired from the practice of medicine. In l963, he served as the President of the Hawaii Medical Association and in l975, he helped found and was the first president of the American College of Physician Executives.

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Nice info you posted ...

Here is Dr. West’s obit:

Rodney T. West, M.D. was born on the island of Maui in the then, Territory of Hawaii. He graduated from the Punahou School in Honolulu and attended Northwestem University in Chicago, where he earned his Medical Degree. He returned to the Islands, spent l8 months as an intern and resident at the Queen’s Hospital and then went into a private practice in Honolulu. He joined the United States Naval Reserve in January of l940. Twenty months later, September 5, 1941, he was called to active duty and was stationed at the Medical Dispensary on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor and was there on the morning of December 7, l941. He spent the rest of World War II on Johnston Island in the Pacific and at various Naval Air Stations on the American mainland. At the end of the war, he returned to Honolulu and on March 26, 1946 was discharged from active duty. In September of l949, he resigned from the Naval Reserve as a full Commander. Then, after practicing on the Big Island of Hawaii for a year, he returned to Honolulu and joined the Obstetrics and Gynecological department of the Straub Clinic. In December of l956, after delivering at least 5,OOO babies - and other things, he retired from the practice of medicine. In l963, he served as the President of the Hawaii Medical Association and in l975, he helped found and was the first president of the American College of Physician Executives.

He was 97 when he died ...

I think this teacher is just trying to get her 15 minutes of fame ...

She gives an interview 2 days AFTER Obama’s inauguration, referencing a 47 year-old recollection of a dinner with the doctor who SUPPOSEDLY delivered Obama almost 5 years AFTER he retired from practice (1956).

AND, he cannot CONFIRM or REFUTE since he died February 24, 2008.

AND, Dr. West was also a graduate of the Punahou School, where Barbara Nelson taught, and where Obama graduated.

This is ALL TOO convenient ... sounds pretty hoofty to me !!!