RCMH & NH Professional Spotlight

The entire staff of RCMH & NH is committed to providing quality health care for area residents. You can count on them to be here, knowledgeable and experienced whenever your need arises.

Our Professional Spotlight is an opportunity for us to highlight individuals who do an outstanding job of providing a medical service to our community. To our spotlight, we say thanks and keep up the great work!

The spotlight is on...

Dr. Moshe Schein

General Surgery


Please tell us a bit more about your...

 

Typical day:
In surgery "nothing is typical and everything is unpredictable." Thus, what would appear by looking at the schedule, as a "typical day" (i.e. consults and operative procedures), may turn out to be packed with demanding operative emergencies.

Family:
I have been married to my wife Heidi for 28 years. She had been a nurse early on, and then an aerobic instructor for many years. Now she is dedicated to her chicken, ducks, cats, a parrot and a dog, and looking after a flourishing garden. We have three sons, all currently in New York: Omri (28) performing in musical theater, Yariv (26) a hotelier, Dan (22) an artist.

Hobbies:
I read a lot and collect books. Since arriving in northern Wisconsin I became an obsessive fisherman - I love fishing off my kayak. I enjoy cooking, especially soups (e.g. bass heads soup), stews and middle eastern food.

Professional Interests:
I am a general surgeon which means that I am interested in "everything" within this wide field. My academic interest however was and is "emergency abdominal surgery" and "surgical infections". I am currently finalizing the third edition of the book "Schein's Commonsense Emergency Abdominal Surgery" (Springer Verlag). As the Associate Editor of the World Journal of Surgery, I judge and edit the work of others.

What Influenced Your Career Decision?
My late father was a surgeon: it seems that I followed in his footsteps.

What Do You Find Most Rewarding About Your Job?
Saving lives!

What Is Your Most Memorable Experience at RCMH?
Everyday is "most memorable". In surgery "experience" means "patients" and all patients I treat here are "memorable" to some extent. Well, the vast majority of them...

Anything else?
I worked and lived all around the world. But it is in northern Wisconsin that we finally found an almost paradise.