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“I came [to Castle],
I interviewed and it clicked with my career goals and what I want to accomplish.“
garden while also teaching yoga.
“We were entrenched in Wisconsin for
ten years and I thought I would eventually retire there, but our family had grown up and moved away,” he said. Last year, his oldest daughter, who completed nursing school at Hawai‘i Pacific University and now works in Honolulu, told him, “I found a job for you in Kailua.” It seemed like a good time for Dr. Wright to leave Wisconsin so he could be near one of his children and two grandchildren.
“I came [to Castle], I interviewed and it clicked with my career goals and what I want to accomplish,” Dr. Wright says, adding that he likes Castle’s mission. “I didn’t want to be in a large city and I perceived a big need for ENT doctors in
Windward O‘ahu. Castle just felt right and seemed like the place we needed to be. I can’t imagine going anywhere else at this point.”
Dr. Wright spends Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Castle’s outpatient clinic and sees patients at Castle’s Laie clinic every other Thursday.
He and his wife love hiking and the outdoors and have taken up outrigger canoe paddling together with Lanikai Canoe Club’s recreational “Sunrise” group. Jacqueline is a certified yoga and prenatal yoga instructor and has started up a vegetable garden (though a fraction of the size of her Wisconsin garden). She has appointed her husband ‘sous gardener’
– all the heavy lifting and tall trimming
is left to him. And Dr. Wright still enjoys rowing, only now he depends on his rowing machine – not the Fox River – for his daily 5,000-meter warmup – a practice he has enjoyed since 2002. He recently hit the 10 million-meter milestone, earning a jacket from the manufacturer.
There is one downside to living in Hawai‘i, he confesses: you can’t drive more than an hour-and-a-half on an O‘ahu “road trip.”
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