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Nearly five years ago on a veranda beneath a starry, crystalline sky in the Arizona desert, Austin Schlie, moved not by forethought but by the moment, kissed his good friend and medical school study partner. Neither he nor Sarah Henderson-Hall was looking for a relationship, or even an eventual spouse for that matter, but if that first kiss had never happened, there wouldn’t be this love story to tell. A love story about each other, about the servant heart, and about family and community. And in this case, it’s Austin’s community, for the young doctor has returned home to tend to the ailing, and he’s brought with him his physician wife and their young daughter. The couple, part of the Lutheran Medical Group, will open a family practice in Leo in late August. Austin, a native of nearby Grabill and graduate of Woodlan Junior/Senior High School, always knew he would come home “to take care of the people I grew
up with. That’s the way I was raised. That’s what you do. You help take care of the people who took care of you and made you who you are.� If that sounds like the community is an extended family, that’s precisely how Austin and Sarah Schlie, both 32, view it. They want to create a family-like culture at the Leo practice that essentially establishes friendships with patients by taking the time to listen and providing individual patient-centered care. Friendship, after all, was and still is the cornerstone of the Schlies’ bond — and it has worked out so well, even if it took a little serendipity. And a fair amount of time. Their story begins with Austin, a graduate of Wabash College, and Sarah, a native of Reno, Nev., and a graduate of the University of NevadaReno, meeting in their freshman year at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. Sarah helped Austin with biochemistry. Both belonged to the same study group. Over the next few years, Austin and Sarah developed a friendship, seeing each other in class and
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In this July photo, Drs. Austin and Sarah Schlie, with 3-year-old daughter Madilynn, stand outside the unfinished medical office building. The couple recently concluded construction on their $1-million Lutheran Medical Group office at 10429 Hosler Road. calling each other occasionally about schoolwork. Sometimes, Sarah would invite Austin to pool parties. “Yeah,� Austin piped up, “cause I was a homebody. I’d stay home all the time if you’d let me.� In time, they discovered that they shared the same philosophies about medicine, especially the importance of preventive care. “You look at patients and they’re so far gone into their illness,� Sarah said. “And you think, if someone had just gotten to them earlier and started explaining, ‘If you watch your weight, if you watch
what you eat, if you exercise ‌’ But now, for them, there’s really no coming back.â€? Added Austin: “If someone had only taken a little bit of time in the beginning.â€? Fellow students at the medical school began noticing the seemingly inextricable link between Austin and Sarah and told Sarah, at least, that the two would make a perfect couple. Even Austin had come to the conclusion that, on a purely professional front, “if there was somebody in that whole group of students I wanted to practice with, it would be her.
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Hands down. We worked well together. We had similar ideas.� But it wasn’t until Sarah invited Austin to the wedding of two of her close college friends in Cave Creek, Ariz., that the friendship became something more. They danced, they played games and as they left an after-party, Austin gave Sarah a spurof-the-moment kiss that left both of them a little stunned. “To be honest,� Austin said, “I didn’t want a girlfriend. I didn’t want a wife.� Said Sarah: “I guess I was kind of shocked. It was kind of like, ‘Well, hmmmm.’� It could have ended up being nothing more than a passing flirtation because Sarah left the next day for hospital rotations in Colorado that would have kept them apart for a year See TIES page A8
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