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The Merrill brothers, Dr Merrill’s father and uncle, were pioneers of the Seventh Day Adventist Colony in Eel Rock, California in 1933. Eel Rock is located on the banks of the wild and scenic North Fork of the Eel River, about 20 miles upriver from its’ junction with the South Fork at Dyersville.

Because of the educational limitations of this sparsely populated rural area, the Merrill’s ultimately moved to Myers Flat on the more populous South Fork of the Eel River in 1948. Dr Merrill was one of only 72 graduates from the South Fork High school in 1955. He subsequently graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with honor and a degree in Physiology Four years later; when Dr Merrill graduated from the University of Southern California Medical School; he became the first student from South Fork High School to become a MD.

After completed his internship and a year of surgical residency in California, Dr Merrill moved to Minnesota where he performed his Urology Residency under the late Don Creevy at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center in Minneapolis. After completing his residency, Dr Merrill performed a NIH special fellowship in Urology at the University of Minnesota and subsequently joined the staff of the Urology department at that institution.

In 1973 Dr Merrill was recruited by the University of California Davis to administer their Urology training program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Martinez California. Dr Merrill served as Chief of Urology in that institution until its closure for seismic considerations in 1991.

Although Dr Merrill spent most of his professional life as an academician teaching residents the skills necessary to become successful Urologic surgeons, he also spent some time in private practice. He was a pioneer in the field of impotency and in the early 1980s was one of the leading implant surgeons in the world having pioneered the Mentor inflatable penile prosthesis and several other implantable medical devices.

This book, however, is not about Dr Merrill or his medical career. Rather, it deals with the deterioration of medicine, as he sees it, over the years that he has been a physician. It is Dr Merrill’s hope that his observations over the past 60 years will be beneficial to those who are considering a career in modern-day medicine.