“Long, short.” Dr. Bob Dodge uses the phrase often.
It means he’s about to deliver a story – about his nearly 50 years as a family doctor in Ventura, or the heartbreak of losing two sons to tragedy, or his ongoing passion to abolish nuclear weapons and make good on the pledge he uses on his license plate. “No nuke is a good nuke!” it says.
Though the “long” may ring truer than the “short,” the stories paint a portrait of a doctor who has monitored Ventura County’s pulse and pushed for social justice change since he came here as a physician in training in 1978…