Best of Ashland 2009 - People and Business

HARDEST WORKING DOCTOR

It’s not that easy becoming a doctor. First you have to muddle through four years of pre-med classes at the college of your choice, then you have to take the MCAT test and hope to get into med school. Then you have to take two years of grueling schoolwork and two years of residency, in which you’re treated like a free source of sleep-deprived labor. By the time you’re done, a long vacation is in order, but you have to pay back those student loans, so forget that.
Anyway, we should all appreciate our local doctors more, which is exactly what our readers did when they mentioned 32 different one in this survey.
Stitching up a win this year was family practitioner Dee Christlieb. Dee was born and raised in Ashland (AHS 1971), attended SOU, and received his medical training at OHSU in Portland. He returned to Ashland in 1983 after a 3-year residency in Omaha, Nebraska.
Other favorite doctors included:
• Sylvia Chatroux.
• Craig Mather.
• Jani Rollins.
• Rick Morris.
• Leslie Stone.
• Allen Johnson.
• John Delgado.