About Steve Blythe

Steve grew up in Kansas and attended medical school on a Public Health Service scholarship. He was assigned to work in a small fishing village on the coast of Maine literally sixty miles from the nearest traffic light. He lived in a log cabin deep in the woods for a year without electricity! (Well, he had a generator to run the water pump five minutes a day). He was a true country doctor - making house calls, delivering babies, and getting paid in lobster. While serving in this town on the border with New Brunswick, Canada, Steve was a Canadian Medicare provider. He found that system to be efficient, fair, and equitable. He feels that the criticisms of that system are far overblown, and he appreciated the fact - as do the Canadians - that everyone was covered, covered equally, and at all times.

Dr. Blythe understands science - he was trained in science - his undergraduate degree is from MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Biology, but he also studied computer science and bioelectronics. While a student he had the opportunity to attend many seminars and lectures with people such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and Jerry Letvin. Below Steve is in a group of "Doc" Edgerton's students sharing dinner with Doc and his wife. Doc Edgerton invented the strobe light, the side-scanning sonar, and many other clever "gadgets".

Steve's experiences before medical school included medical research at a Boston-area research hospital and graduate school in Nutrition and Public Health at Penn State. He did nutrition field work on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona and spent three months studying Spanish in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, prior to entering medical school. He has returned to that beautiful country a number of times to do medical work and on a human rights delegation.

After serving in Maine for over six years the Blythe's moved to Denver where Steve served on the faculty of the Family Medicine Residency Program at Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Center. During that time he attended night school to obtain his Master's Degree in Health Administration. The Blythe family relocated to Melbourne so that Steve could accept a position as Medical Director for the Harris Family Medical Center.

He has practiced in Melbourne now for over ten years, and his family is proud to call Florida home. One of the Blythe's children just graduated from Melbourne High School, and he has another child in Brevard County Public Schools. As opposed to many of our Republican representatives, Steve is a very strong supporter of public education. He is an enthusiastic environmentalist and a Life Member of the Sierra Club. He has thrilled at being able to introduce his children to some of our nation's great National Parks and wild places. A lover of nature, some of his photographs can be found on this web site.