For most of my adult life I’ve been an entrepreneur. It’s a long story and it’s been quite the ride. With physician friends we promoted sports medicine in the mid-1970s. After a few years managing medical practices I realized that health care telephone communications were sorely lacking and I created MediConnect. 

MediConnect, a healthcare call center served the needs of some 170,000 physicians and medical specialists by creating new ways to distinguish, among other things, just what is an emergency. At first these healthcare professional scoffed then told me I had improved their lives dramatically and made their practices run better.

I researched, studied, and ultimately created a new method to attract patients into and retain them in clinical trials.  Major companies like Eli Lilly signed on after we proved our worth, but one company, a major British firm with presence in the US threw me out, only to sign on after one of their acquisitions was proving better results in patient recruitment than they. My company, PhoneScreen set the standard and created a huge business segment in this arena worth many hundreds of millions annually.

I invented new methods of patient communications using the web and have been issued patents.  We worked with some major entities in government and healthcare but I ultimately sold out and retired. 

I so much appreciate all the folks we came in contact with and who trusted us with their medical practices, organ banks, dialysis firms, and the numerous pharmaceutical and device companies. I also thank Rush University, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Northshore and many others in Chicago who closed their call centers and allowed us to flourish and help them all grow as well.

Along the way I was often attacked by people questioning the various businesses themselves. That is what happens to pioneers, you’re told you know nothing, your idea is stupid and stop wasting your time. It's what my folks said to me as well. I've had many mentors whose success began the same way, people questioning their vision. I thank them too for their friendship. So why am I telling you this? I have a crazy new idea. It’s this website called Calendar Memories.