So beautiful and prompt so many memories as AIDs (HTLV3 etc) overlapped with my training as a physician. Influenced and helped give birth to my entire specialty (Palliative Medicine). So many memories. Princess Diana visiting our Palliative Care Unit at NM - holding the hand of every patient. Lost on us at the time is she did not wear gloves - we did not recognize or understand the implications of her radical stance and humanity. Then the transformation of the protease inhibitors, the pivot in experiences. My first "AIDs patient" that I diagnosed back in the mid90's in my Internal Medicine just died last week in his 80's from heart disease and frailty and completed with grace and a peaceful exhale a life well lived. Wow
Thank you, John. Every so often I remember and mourn all the beautiful young friends I lost. Thank you for reminding us. People are only really gone of they are forgotten.
Oh John, thank you for this. The socials hit me hard too this year. The lost college friends, my dear uncle. I wasn't in the thick of it like you were, but I remember all too well the terror of those days, and the way the entire thing was memory holed. This is beautiful. Terrible, but beautiful.
So beautiful and prompt so many memories as AIDs (HTLV3 etc) overlapped with my training as a physician. Influenced and helped give birth to my entire specialty (Palliative Medicine). So many memories. Princess Diana visiting our Palliative Care Unit at NM - holding the hand of every patient. Lost on us at the time is she did not wear gloves - we did not recognize or understand the implications of her radical stance and humanity. Then the transformation of the protease inhibitors, the pivot in experiences. My first "AIDs patient" that I diagnosed back in the mid90's in my Internal Medicine just died last week in his 80's from heart disease and frailty and completed with grace and a peaceful exhale a life well lived. Wow
Wow so happy you came across my feed. Great writing
Thank you for this. 🙏
Thank you 💔 If you did ever have anything to apologise for, your writing absolves you.
Thank you, John. Every so often I remember and mourn all the beautiful young friends I lost. Thank you for reminding us. People are only really gone of they are forgotten.
This is such poignant and beautiful writing…..I look forward to your book
Oh John, thank you for this. The socials hit me hard too this year. The lost college friends, my dear uncle. I wasn't in the thick of it like you were, but I remember all too well the terror of those days, and the way the entire thing was memory holed. This is beautiful. Terrible, but beautiful.