William Ediger

Dr. William M. Ediger (Mike) is a recently retired Emergency Medicine Physician who relates he was frequently asked by patients and friends to write a guide on how to take care of the routine medical emergencies that plague young children and their parents. When he retired he found the time and has help assuage the anxiety and fears parents feel when they are confronted by a sick child and don't know what to do. His book has been well received by friends and readers.

Dr. Ediger has had an interesting life, serving in Vietnam in the late 60's and returning home to work as a lineman for an electrical Utility company in Wichita, Kansas. In his late 20's he relates working in subzero weather helping to restore electric power to houses in an ice storm and realized that his co-worker who was also a Journeyman lineman and who was 58 years old was praying for the foreman to retire so he could step up to a foreman job before he retired. He asked himself if that was where he wanted to spend the next 40 years and decided to go back to school and try for Medical School realizing he would always wonder if he could have made it if he didn't try. He joined the Air Force reserve in a program to pay for his Medical School and spent the next 16 years in the Air Force and Air National Guard flying all over the world and performing medical care in foreign countries including Nicaragua, Europe, Norway, Korea, Thailand, and others. He flew missions on RC-135 aircraft earning an Air Medal for his activities (Classified Missions). He supervised pararescuemen in Alaska that rescued many downed aircraft occupants on land and out to sea and taught medical courses in the "Bush" villages in rural Alaska and lived in Alaska for 13 years. He is an accomplished Pilot with many ratings including single engine, multiengine, Instrument, and Seaplane ratings as well as an outstanding sailor, sailing the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands on his 28 foot sloop. He has hunted the large Alaskan Grizzly bear with only a camera (got some great pictures too).

He moved to Stonewall, OK in 1995 and worked in many hospitals in Oklahoma before finishing his medical career working in the VA system in Oklahoma and Illinois. He now spends his time in Stonewall writing, raising Winegrapes, and making Beer for friends and maybe for others someday. He now has time for playing with the grandkids (2- Rhys and Zoe), learning about this facebook and twitter thing and would love to hear from you about most anything. Thanks for the interest in his book and new ones that will be coming out.