Dr. Mike Rothschild - My Dear Friend and Idol

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I (Ted) first met Mike at a GOA meeting in Hilton Head, SC (GA seldom ever meets in GA for the summer meeting because our beaches are….subpar).  He was a 4th-year optometry student and I was barely out of school for a few years.  Fast forward a few years and our paths crossed again.  This time it was on a trip to Miami Beach for a Vision Source meeting when VS was still very small.  Fast forward even more years and Mike has had his practice catch on fire (both because it is awesome and because an electrical wire literally set the roof on fire), had an SUV go through the wall where his conference room in the office was, buy a lake house at Lake Martin AL (where he, I and the rest of the Lakehouse boys would convene yearly for lots of mischief and reflection), sell his practice to his partner, begin a career in industry with an EHR firm, leave that part of his life to go into teaching optometry students why private practice is the best way to practice optometry, start another private practice, and all the while maintain a great leadership organization LeadershipOD.com.  He has continued to be one of my best friends and one of the bravest people I know, because he is willing to reinvent himself to achieve higher levels of excellence in doing so.  If this episode doesn’t give you at least one good belly laugh, well go back and listen again for the great lessons instead.  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you my dear friend and idol, Mike Rothschild, a great American. (To my sixth grade English teacher, I apologize for the run-on sentence in the fifth sentence.)

 

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