Joseph William Isaac, MD

I'm originally from the Island of Antigua and Barbuda. High school education was affected by the war. I'm the only science subject able to continue because our chemistry laboratory was no longer functional. I came to the United States. I was in the Bronx, New York, even with my uncle. It gave you some encouragement. At that time you did not have to have a bachelor's in the medical labs, because most of it was colorimetry before many of the important laboratory machines came into being. I had gone in the Army also. I was able to do a medical laboratory in the Army, but when I came out, I did get a job at a municipal hospital center and it eventually became almost a research center because they were sending tuberculosis patients out at home. From then on I became more positive.