Just as complex as the human nervous system, so was the multi-directional course that landed Dr. Frank Benz, MD, where he is today as a neurologist at Carolina Rheumatology and Neurology in Myrtle Beach.
After graduating with a degree in business management from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Benz says he was hired by a law firm in DC doing grunt work and research at the Securities and Exchange Commission, but he knew he didn’t want to go into law long-term. So, he moved back to his native Rhode Island, where he landed a job in sales engineering in nearby north Boston. It’s also where he met his future wife, a doctor, who suggested he consider getting into medicine.
“Most people say, ‘I wanted to be a doctor since I was 5 years old,’ but I never really considered it,” says Benz. “It was more along the technical aspects that I was looking at. I always liked the sciences, and then when it was presented to me, I thought it was an interesting profession that I hadn’t really thought about … I was in my late twenties, early thirties, at the time, which I think helped me because I was still working during the day and taking science classes at night for two years.”…