BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL
coming home
Drawn Back
Physician trains in Miami
but finds Detroit home.
nine years in the Florida sunshine.
Robert Sklar
Editor
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"Miami was a lot of fun and, of course,
the climate was nice," says Rachel, 33,
fter graduating from the
University of Michigan in 1997,
Rachel Hertzberg, then 21 and
now a staff radiologist specializing in
musculoskeletal radiology for the Detroit-
based Henry Ford Health System.
Florida. So they
rented a house
in Huntington
Woods.
Then they fell
in love with the
single, headed to Miami for
medical school. The West Bloomfield
native never really planned to stay
In 2004, the Hulens had a daughter,
Phoebe.
in that south Florida hotspot beyond
graduation.
high-rise condominium and a hectic city
life made the day-to-day very challeng-
ing," Rachel says. "A skyrocketing real
welcoming and
comfortable
for us," Rachel
estate market also made it difficult to
imagine finding an affordable home in
says. "After
doing a nation-
a nice neighborhood to raise our young
family."
wide job search, we decided that Metro
But then she fell in love with Chris
Hulen, whom she met the first year of
medical school. He started his resi-
dency in Miami in 2001, the year the
two got married at Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield. A year later, Rachel
Hertzberg Hulen began her residency in
Miami.
Before she knew it, she had spent
"We started to realize that life in a
In 2006, the Hulens decided to
move to Metro Detroit to do their fel-
lowships. They figured they would
stay about a year, given Chris' ties to
neighborhood.
"The com-
munity was so
Rachel Hertzberg Hulen and her husband, Chris, with kids
Jack, 17 months, and Phobe, 41/2
Phoebe and Jack attend the early child-
Detroit had the most to offer our family."
If that wasn't enough validation to
stay put, all the comforts of living near
their extended family clinched their deci-
sion. Son Jack was born in 2007. Both
hood program at Temple Emanu-El in
Oak Park, where their parents are active.
On The Job
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