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“Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”
- Wayne Dyer (1940–2015), self help author, motivational speaker
Another member of my medical school class (LLU-SM) recently passed. I say ‘another’ because a number already have.
Some years ago, a surgeon, whom I first met our 1st year in medical school, the day we attended a screening of ‘West Side Story’ at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, succumbed. In a successful practice, he and a colleague, a urologist, both had CT coronary screening scans. The CT scan of the surgeon showed heavy coronary calcification. He intended to have this looked into further, but suffered a fatal heart attack before his good intentions were carried out.
As John Lennon observed, life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans.
I just took a call from another classmate who retired in the desert.
He informed me that a mutual classmate, a retired orthopedist and friend, had passed from metastatic kidney cancer.
This classmate had had the kindness to visit me a few years ago before I underwent lumbar surgery for sciatica.
I am glad I attended a milestone reunion a few years ago. I was quite sure it would be the last time I…
