Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Dr. Rick Marriott reads medical journals to his December-born daughter as he puts her to sleep.
His father, Dr. Randy Marriott, did the same thing 31 years ago and now both are working on the same hospital emergency room floors helping save lives and responding to the needs of COVID-19 patients during the pandemic.
“I’m extremely proud; there’s no way I couldn’t be,” said Randy about working with his son.
Randy is the chair of the Emergency Management Committee for Miami Valley Hospital and the medical director for the Premier Health Center of Excellence.
Both father and son are part of Miami Valley Emergency Specialists, which contracts to provide emergency room doctors to all Premier Health hospitals.
The father-son duo both attended Wright State’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. Randy Marriott was medical director there when Rick Marriott attended.
“We talk frequently during shifts,” said Rick. “We know where each other is working, and we know the direct phone line to the physicians at those hospitals, so we will call each other and bounce things off each other. I don’t think he asks me many questions; I usually end up calling him to ask most questions.”
