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the condition that I stay with Walter Reed when the time was up.
Because I was selected to do this, the Army paid the bills. So I became
a resident at Georgetown University gratis. At the time I was their
highest paid resident because I was on duty as a Lieutenant Colonel.”
Dr. O’Connor’s two year residency in general pathology meant a
lot of autopsies. “It was glorified surgery. The first comment I had
was ‘Where is the suction?’ Because when you do surgery, you have
to keep the field clean to see what you’re doing. The only comment
I got was ‘Don’t need it.’”
Dr. O’Connor stayed at Georgetown until his retirement from
the military after 20 years of reserve service. “You can’t stay in any
longer unless you augment to regular Army which I wasn’t interested in doing. But I outrank my dad - which drives him nuts!” Dr.
O’Connor said.
“I had no connection to Louisville whatsoever, but Dr. Dave
Doering convinced
me to come. He’s an
oncologist here who
was a medical student
when I met him at
Walter Reed as junior
faculty. We met again
at an oncology meeting and he suggested
I come out to Louisville. I interviewed at
U of L, got accepted
and moved out soon
after.”
Dr. O'Connor, Louis and
Andrew O'Connor
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Dr. O’Connor is
now employed by
Norton Healthcare
Walker Counseling Services
CPA Lab where he
supervises gynecologic specimens and
works closely with
other physicians at
Norton’s Women’s
and Kosair Children’s Hospital in St.
Matthews. He also
reviews outpatient
specimens for other
practices throughout Louisville and
Kentucky.
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The O'Connors with their
granddaughter Emily
In his free time,
Dr. O’Connor has again taken up building the scale models that he
enjoyed as a kid. Though he typically focuses on biplanes of the Great
War, one of his newest works is the Atomic Cannon. The unique
military vehicle was deployed briefly in the 1950s as a deterrent to
the communist bloc. “They were very expensive to maintain and
weren’t practical, so by 1963 they were all decommissioned. The
model originally came out in 1957. They just re-released it and I
had to have one.”
Today, the O’Connor’s spend much of their free time with loved
ones including their two-year-old granddaughter, Emily. After
moving around the world for much of his life, it was his family that
finally got Dr. O’Connor to settle down.
Aaron Burch is the communications specialist for the Greater Louisville Medical Society.