Get to know the world's oldest practicing doctor, who is from Cleveland Heights and works right here in Northeast Ohio!
“It bewilders me. I just can’t understand it,” said Tucker about all the fuss. “People say to me, you’re doing pretty good for a hundred, and I say to myself how many 100-year-old people have they sampled? I don’t think I’ve ever met another 100-year-old person. I have only met myself.”a hint of childish delight in the fanfare that has surrounded his centennial milestone. His intellect, and wit, are still intact and sharp as ever.
He still exercises two miles on the treadmill or stationary bike four times a week, reads the paper with his wife of 65 years over breakfast every morning, then puts on a bowtie and heads to the hospital where he still teaches neurology residents and sees patients. And when the occasion calls for it, he’s been known to pull an all-nighter to prepare a new medical lecture for his students.
And as if medicine wasn’t enough, 40 years into his medical career, he earned a law degree while working full-time, passing the Ohio Bar Exam at the age of 67. These days, in his days off from the hospital, he also works on the side as an expert witness, reviewing medical cases — an intellectual challenge he says he loves.
“I think I have him beat by 5 . I suppose I ought to call the Ohio State Bar Association and ask them,” he said, looking over at his grandson across the table.signs that Tucker is slowing down.He no longer does the NordicTrack anymore because he says his balance is off, and he only walks two miles on the treadmill at a time instead of the previous three to four.
A decade earlier in his 80s he walked away from a skiing accident in Colorado that fractured the second cervical vertebrae – the same vertebrae he points out that killed Sonny Bono and paralyzed Christopher Reeves. And in his 70s he was airlifted of a mountaintop in the Alps in a basket suspended from a helicopter, after he slipped and broke his kneecap while hiking with his wife.
As a doctor he has lived through the polio epidemic, the last outbreak of smallpox, the discovery of DNA and the rise of modern genetics. And he has seen advances in technology he could once never have dreamed up.
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