Dr Paul Auerbach, Father of Wilderness Medicine, Dies at 70 nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Paul was born January 4, 1951 and spent his childhood years in Plainfield, NJ with his parents, brother, and sister. After dabbling in sports, music, and theatre in high school, he went on to attend Duke University for both his undergraduate and medical school education. At the time, Emergency Medicine was an up-and-coming field, and Paul decided to apply on a whim to a new residency program at UCLA while on an American Airlines flight using their in-plane stationary. The program was so intrigued by his bold application strategy that they offered him an interview and ultimately a position in their class of 1980. It was during his time at UCLA that he met his wife, Sherry Auerbach of Los Altos, while she worked at the recreation center during her time as an undergraduate. The rest was history.