About the author
Quentin L. Green M.D. is a forward thinking man who as a physician specialized in obstetrics, gynecology and nutrition. As a community and political activist, he assisted seniors, families and supporting property rights; as well as being both a father and grandfather.
Dr. Green has practiced medicine since 1958 in Orlando, Florida. He was one of the first physicians to incorporate computers into his practice in the 1970s. He was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1922. His parents, Alice Brandt Green and Oscar Lafayette Green, had two children Quentin and Robert. Oscar was a banker involved in real estate.
During depression years of 1930 to 1934, the family moved frequently. This resulted in his attending 12 schools in Michigan, Alabama, Texas, Illinois, Florida and Washington, DC. He graduated in 1940 from San Jacinto High School in Houston, Texas. His first paying job was an early morning paper route and switched to the Federal Land Bank and a major wholesale distributor while taking night courses at the University of Houston for two years as a pre-med student.
After the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, he joined the Navy. He was sent to boot camp in San Diego, became a seaman and was transferred to the Navy Hospital where he became a Pharmacist Mate. He was then transferred to Baylor University College of Medicine and received his Medical Degree in 1948.
Dr. Green joined a family practice physician for six months in San Antonio, Texas, across from the Alamo for extra funds. He returned to Houston for a one year internship in 1949 at Jefferson Davis Hospital. He then obtained a surgical residency for two years under Dr. DeBakey. He was called into the Navy during the Korean War as a flight surgeon in June 1952. His tours of duty during 1952 to 1954 included the Philippine Islands and Japan. His discharge from the Navy in 1954 as a Lieutenant Commander was followed by an interim OB-GYN residency at Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles. A three-year OB-GYN residency was then completed at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana.
During the last year of residency at Charity Hospital in 1958, he married and considered the options of where to practice in the sun-belt states of Texas, California, Louisiana, Arizona, and Florida. Both decided on Central Florida and Orlando as being a good place to practice and raise a family. Dr. Green and his wife had six children, five boys and one girl.
In 1971, Green donated their former home on Lake Beauty to the Drug Abuse Council of Orange County in Orlando. This rehabilitation center was for teenagers and their families. There were no facilities in Central Florida and funds were not available from the government. Ten years later, he subsidized seniors who lived in a Share-a-Home facility, a stately three-story mansion located on five acres in Winter Garden. It was turned over to independent senior citizens who shared expenses. In the late 1990s, Dr. Green hosted the Hunter Safety Classes for six years which were conducted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission at his ranch located in Chuluota, Florida. He received the Land Conservationist of the Year award by the Florida Wildlife Conservation in 2001.
His home in Chuluota, Florida, is the 700-acre Big Oaks Ranch cow-calf operation just outside Orlando. This location has provided enjoyment for the family and the community. The film industry has found Big Oaks Ranch an ideal setting for movies Waterboy, the television series Sheena Queen of the Jungle and to independent film producers.