Dr. Michael Greer says a physiology course while he was a student at Sequatchie County High School piqued his interest in medicine, and he never had a plan B.
“I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t do medical school,” he says. “Fortunately, I got in. It was all I wanted to do and I was fortunate enough to do it.”
Greer, 68, joined University Surgical Associates in Chattanooga in 1985 and specializes as a vascular surgeon.
Greer recalls that after high school, he earned a zoology degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He attended medical school at the UT Health Science Center in Memphis, and he returned to Chattanooga for a general surgery residency.
“I was just a country boy who got a good break,” he says. “Medical school changed my life really. It gave me the opportunity to do all these things.”