By Paul Sylvain

It’s safe to say that the last thing Raymond Howard could have ever imagined as a young boy growing up in Iowa was that one day he’d find himself seeing patients in Jonesport, Maine, and tending to a handful of lobster traps in Moosabec Reach. 

But, Iowa’s loss became Downeast Maine’s gain, in 2022, when, in the midst of the pandemic, Dr. Howard moved to the tiny fishing village of Jonesport and began seeing patients at Arnold Memorial Medical Center.