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Life and career mix well for Douglas Wolfe

By Mary Wade Burnside
Times West Virginian

FAIRMONT — By the time Dr. Douglas Wolfe went to the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, he already had a good background to become a doctor — he worked several years as a physician assistant first.

The Maryland native had known since about junior high school that he wanted to be in the medical profession, so he applied for the PA program at Alderson-Broaddus College.

“Maybe the grouse hunting was better in West Virginia,” mused Wolfe, who still spends his vacations going out West and to foreign countries — most recently South Africa — to hunt during his time off.

As a physician assistant, Wolfe worked at the MVA Fairmont clinic’s Shinnston satellite office before starting medical school in 1980.

“That was an excellent background to go to medical school,” Wolfe said. “We have quite a few docs around that followed that routine.”

After he graduated, he returned to Marion County and set up practice in Mannington, near a home he owned from his PA days.

Now as a family practice physician, Wolfe gets to have a career in medicine but also live life on his terms.



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Dr. Douglas Wolfe was a physician assistant before enrolling in the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. He now works as a family practice physician in Mannington. PHOTO BY DANNY SNYDER/Times West Virginian (Click for larger image)



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