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Vernon F. Bradley, MD  

OB/GYN Preceptor

    "Be sure you know
        what you don't know"

Retired due to high malpractice cost.

Biography

Raised in New Kensington School District where I was taught to write just like a Doctor.  How else could I pass all those exams and graduate?  I met my wife when a senior in college and she was a first year nursing student at St. Francis Hospital in Pittsburgh.  I said she would be my last blind date - I was her first and last.   Forty three years of marriage and four kids later proved us both right.  I came to Altoona because my wife is from neighboring Tyrone, PA and my college room mate is from Altoona and I love mountain greenery. 

After 36 years of practice and teaching I am now retired.  I teach and precept at Altoona Family Physicians merely to avoid spending 36 hours a day at home and causing my early demise at the hands of my wife.

Our four children consist of James, the eldest who has a BS in Biology and a BSN in critical care nursing.  Our second son (and only planned offspring), Tim, is a plastic and reconstruction and hand surgeon who has given us two darling granddaughters.   Our third son (Pat) has a degree in hotel management from Penn State and our daughter Beth (who was supposed to be our third son's placenta) is living in California.   We obviously travel a lot to see all our family - Pittsburgh to St. Louis to California.

Facts

Undergraduate          St. Vincent College, BA
Medical School            Jefferson Medical College
Internship                   Allegheny Valley Hospital
Residency                    Cleveland Clinic - OB/GYN     
Board Certification     OB/GYN 1964, 1978
Years at AFP               Since 1996

Previous experience

Consulting staff: Tyrone Hospital, VA Hospital, Nason Hospital
Active staff:  Mercy Hospital, Altoona Hospital
Obstetrics:  Healthy Beginnings Plus

Areas of responsibility at the residency

Gynecology preceptor and consultant

Areas of interest

Reproductive endocrinology
Hysteroscopy - Laparoscopy
Colposcopy
Gynecologic Oncology

Publications and presentations

"Decreased need for narcotic therapy for labor patients with prior preparation by prenatal classes and family centered obstetrics program"  1961.

"Conization for definitive therapy of CA in situ of cervix", 1963

Paper presentation:
"Treatment of complications to ileum, colon and rectum secondary to radiation of pelvic cancer", 1962

Family

After hours interests

Golf, swimming, music, bowling

Past involvements:
    camping, hiking, Eagle Scout,
    Assistant scoutmaster, concert and
    marching band, dance band.