Anthony Kemper

Well for the past 17 years I have been a PA ( Physician Assistant), having graduated from the family practice program at CSUDH/USC. My first few years were in Pediatrics which wierd as it sounds terrified me being a father at the time. I had thought I would be to stiff so to say and kids would be scared of me. I soon learned the best way to approach kids was to be one myself, a little wacky and unorthodox a Patch Adams kinda guy as compared to what ones impression of a Medical Provider should be. And bingo it became so very easy. I made a challenge to myself years ago to see a new child who would normally be sacred of strangers, especially docs who order those dreaded vaccines and have them not cry and give me a high five at the end of the visit. Or if there is a child who is screaming their little head off to have the crying stop before the exam is over. To this day this simple challenge makes the most routine boring days worth while when I see a child scared to death leave smiling and blow anway that the exam didnt hurt. Over the years I have been partners in several Medical groups in the San Fernando Valley which sad to say had gone belly up during the Medi-Cal crisis and local economic turmoil 10 years ago. for the past 10 years I have been working for Health Care Partners in their 24 hour Urgent Care Clinic in downtown Los Angeles. Prior to becoming a PA I was a Hemo-dialysis Technician for 15 years after high school graduation. I married 2 years out of high school and had 3 children 2 girls and 1 boy whose photos are posted here. I have 6 grand children 4 boys and 2 girls, 3 live in Yorba Linda with my daughter Krista and the other 3 live in St. Louis, MO. with my oldest daughter Cory and her husband Kevin. Unfortunately the marriage lasted 12 years and then I divorced just at the time I went into the PA program. Ive remarried and have been with my present wife for just about 12 years now and weve been married for 5 years and I have 2 step sons one who is the same age as my son Scott and the other is 13. I have been to Mexico and the Philippines ( what and eye opener that was ) 3 times no ill feeling but three trips to the Philippines is enough for me. I need to see other parts of this beautiful planet. Some of my hobbies are cooking. I love to cook and can cook just about anything. I have been tinkering around in the kitchen since about the age of 6 when one morning I was making breakfast for my self I stuck a fork in the toaster to retrieve a piece of stuck toast. I bet you cant guess what happened next!!!!! Since then I have a deep respect for elctricity. Love gardening but since Ive become a PA ive been out of touch with the yard I need to get back in touch with mother earth. I Like tinkering around with Photography and building computers. I had to do some hardware upgrades many years ago so I looked inside to see what it was all about and said to myself, SELF!!!! you can do this and have not bought a brand name pc since. Ive built about a dozen so far for friends and family and the hardest thing ive come across is getting a person to use anti virus software and keep it updated.