Jerome A. Kessler graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1980, completed residency training in North Dakota, and then started a private practice in 1986. He holds a B.A. in psychology, and M.D., and national board certifications in three specialties -- Internal Medicine, Family Practice and Geriatrics. He is a devoted husband and father. He spent 19 years taking care of patients in Sidney, Montana, a town of 5000 people, before retiring from medicine in 2005. He started a family landscaping business, authored a semi-fictional memoir (Crazy Like Me Memories & Musing of a Retired Small Town Doctor) and writes a weekly newspaper column -- which is sarcastically called "Dr. Dirt". His columns were once about landscaping, but now cover a wide range of topics: personality profiles, humorous anecdotes, sentimental reflctions, medicine, psychology, marriage, and more . . .
