Tate Goodwin
Tate Goodwin-Dreyfus | |
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 ULSA Portrait, 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 31, 1990 Los Santos, San Andreas |
| Spouse | Lydia Smoterich-Barr (m. 2016; div. 2021) Chas Dreyfus (m. 2022) |
| Residence | 5030 Barbareno Road |
| Alma mater | University of San Andreas, Los Santos (BA) (MD) |
| Occupation | Board Certified Trauma Surgeon |
Tate Leopold Goodwin-Dreyfus MD (Born March 31, 1990) is an American physician, surgeon-scientist, and traumatologist originally from Los Santos, San Andreas, best recognized as the surgeon-in-chief for Blaine County General Hospital, a small and respected regional trauma center in Sandy Shores. As an academic trauma surgeon, he is a national leader in bench-to-clinic translational trauma research. In 2021, he was awarded the American Heart Association Lifetime Achievement Award for Trauma Resuscitation Science. He is currently an associate professor of Surgery at the Youens School of Medicine (YSM) at the University of San Andreas, Los Santos.
Early life
Tate Leopold Goodwin was born on March 31, 1990 in the Mirror Park neighborhood of Los Santos, to a Jewish family; Esther (née Solomon), an Israeli immigrant, and Fred Goodwin (who himself anglicized his name from the common ashkenazi spelling Guttwein during his youth). He had two brothers, Nate and Marty, and a brother who died as a child. He attended Paul R. Williams High School. As an accomplished young musician, who often performed in travelling state-wide youth ensembles, tate enrolled at the University of San Andreas, Los Santos to study music performance, when he was sixteen years old. His mother, who herself was a well-respected pediatrician in the LS area, persuaded Tate to study for and challenge the Medical College Admissions Test, after Tate began expressing interests in also persuing a medical career. With an impressive extracurricular portfolio and a modest MCAT score, Tate was offered admission to the Youens School of Medicine at ULSA, where he began his medical education in 2010.
Career
Training
Dr. Goodwin-Dreyfus is an American Board of Surgery-certified trauma and critical care surgeon. He completed a surgical residency at Central Los Santos Medical Center in Los Santos, which was known as the murder capital of the United States during his time there in the early 2010's. While taking care of young trauma patients during residency training, Tate realized his passion for trauma surgery. There he also met his mentor, Dr. Jasminder Bheeda, who served as a major inspiration for his interest in rural medical care. After completing residency training in 2019, Tate completed his fellowship in traumatology at La Mesa West Medical Center in Las Venturas. Upon assuming his position at Blaine County General Hospital in 2020, Tate acted as the founding Surgeon-in-chief of the newly built multi-specialty trauma unit, and the director of the Hospital's Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Program. Dr. Goodwin's clinical focuses are traumatic brain injury, hemorrhagic shock, cell preservation and response modulation to injuries, hemorrhage control, and development of novel treatments for sepsis.
Blaine County General Hospital
Blaine County General Hospital (BCGH) or simply County General is a 10 bed rural teaching hospital built in 2020. It lies some 100 miles north of Los Santos, within the community of Sandy Shores, the primary incorporated municipality of the county. When Tate joined BCGH, the hospital had a busy and overworked outpatient department, while other departments, including the 10 bed emergency room and operating theater, were under construction. Tate had decided to settle there because the County Commissioner, Betty-Bea Getty, who recruited Tate specifically for his expertise in rural emergency medicine, had agreed to allow him to manage and develop the the new hospital with relative independence. Tate officially assumed his role in May of 2020 as an employee of the Department of Health.
For the first 12 months, Tate was responsible for the rotating 12 week training of student doctors and visiting physicians studying rural emergency medicine as an elective at BCGH. They were sent through state financed rural grants to work in government-run hospitals and clinics in northern San Andreas, including County General. The hospital's patient base initially depended almost exclusively on these doctors, as there were only two permanent physicians employed at BCGH, Tate included. In May 2021, Blaine County General Hospital was designated a Level 3 Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons, and hired several full-time physicians to support its growth.
San Andreas Fire Rescue
Tate was appointed Chief Fire Officer in 2021 by the County Commissioner, and was ratified by the Blaine County City Council on July 1, 2021. Tate succeeded D. Angoose as the Chief Fire Officer after Angoose's retirement. According to public records, his salary in 2021 was $388,120.
Marriage & Personal life
In 2016, Tate married Lydia Smoterich-Barr, a local attorney with whom he met while he was completing his residency at Central Los Santos Medical Center. During his early relationship with Lydia, Tate was shown to care about Lydia unconditionally for her initial kindness and determination, and was a dedicated friend, boyfriend, and husband towards her, even if he lacked true love. This mutual respect, however, was not to last, as the two were not long to face disagreements that strained their marriage. By 2018, both partners began simultaneously engaging in outside sexual relationships, even with the other's knowledge. While not as jaded with their marriage as Lydia was, Tate himself was quickly bored and indifferent and was not above persuing relationships outside the house. As their awareness of eachothers misdeeds came to light on numerous occasions, Tate's loyalty towards Lydia only soured, causing the couple to end up in marriage counselling. This did little to help matters.
Their constant fighting, retaliatory sexual affairs, and inability to look at eachother without guilt ultimately led to Tate's decision to break up with Lydia, explaining to her how he believed that he was at fault (despite Lydia's pleas that it was their own mutual incompatibility), and that he was having too much "fun" pushing Lydia out of his life, and how he and Lydia needed to break up to retain whatever sense of diginity they still had left. Their divorce was lengthy, and expensive. In an interview with the Grapeseed Gazette, Tate confirmed that half of his wealth was eroded by his divorce.
In April 2022, Tate was introduced to Los Santos Financial Advisor Chas Dreyfus at a fundraising event. They were married in 2022, and recently bought a house in Chumash.