Commercial Fishing for Catfish
In August 2001, I left the quiet bayou state of Louisiana to start medical school. My plane landed on a small airstrip on the side of a steep mountain on the island of Dominica. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay on this tropical island nation! After graduation from medical school, I started Psychiatry residency training at Tulane University. Then, after Hurricane Katrina demolished New Orleans in 2005, I completed my training at Harvard University in Massachusetts and graduated in 2009. At that time, I was 20 years old in these pics and was a freshman in college, pursuing my Pre-Med degree (double major in Biology and Biochemistry). My dad was still teaching 12th grade World History (he is now deceased). Louis Turner works for the U.S. Government; and Brian was also a volunteer like me in AmeriCorps, as we both went to college. He plays the Cajun accordion and breeds Golden Retrievers. I was born and raised in the Cajun Heartland of Southwestern Louisiana. Since the age of 5, I fished in freshwater...
