Aloha,
My name is Cindy Mosbrucker and I'm going to be Dr. Redwine's "clone", as he calls me. I just moved to Bend from Hawaii where I was in private practice for 8 years as an OB/GYN. I've been doing quite a bit of surgery in Hawaii, both for endometriosis as well as for pelvic prolapse and incontinence, but now I'll be able to "learn from the master" and operate with Dr. Redwine on a daily basis. I guess I've been destined to be a surgeon since I was little. When I was in the 3rd grade, Carly Simon's song "You're so vain" was a big hit. My teacher asked us if we knew what it meant, and I raised my hand and said "it's kinda like an artery..." Then when I was in high school, I worked on a ranch and always helped the vet take care of the animals that were injured. We had a sheep with a big abscess ( like a huge zit) on it's back, a horse that ripped the skin off his leg, and various animals who had to get "fixed". I loved being in on the action. I went to Medical school in Chicago at Northwestern, and because it was quite expensive applied for and received a Navy scholarship. My last year of med school I went to Pakistan for 3 months to work at a little mission hospital. What an experience that was - patients would come in extremely sick, and we knew that we had to operate on them even though we didn't know exactly what we'd find, but if we didn't do anything, they would surely die. I'll tell you more stories about this later. I did my residency at Bethesda Naval Hospital, which is where President Reagan was operated on a few times, and had some great experiences there, as well as opportunities for doing a lot of surgery. It helped that I had done quite a few cases in Pakistan, because it gave me more experience than any of the other interns, so I was given more surgeries and more responsibility at an earlier time than most. After residency, I went to Guam for 3 years. It was a nice break from residency where I was working 80 -100 hour weeks. We worked hard and played hard - diving, fishing, golfing, etc. I started doing urogynecology there, where I worked closely with a urologist friend of mine doing complex cases. Then, I moved to Pensacola, Florida, to complete my obligation to the Navy. After a year there, I moved to Hawaii where I was in private practice in Windward Oahu. There I continued my quest to master pelvic reconstruction procedures and curing, or at least improving incontinence in women. As time went on, I refined my procedures to optimize the longevity of the repairs, so that the likelihood of recurrence of the prolapse was less likely. I became the referral gynecologic surgeon for my hospital and although I was still doing some OB, the main focus of my practice was surgical. The biggest reward I get is my patients being so happy after realizing that their small surgery relieved the suffering they'd been enduring from leaking urine, or being uncomfortable from their prolapse. I was happy because I was good at what I did, and could make a difference in the lives of my patients, but I still felt that there was more that I could accomplish. I thought about doing a fellowship in Urogyn, but as I researched this, I realized that I already knew 90% of what I would learn. As I continued my quest to optimize my potential I considered moving from Hawaii, somewhat for family reasons, and partially because I felt that it was time to come closer to home. Then I met Dr. Redwine, and my life changed forever. More later.......