An unerring ability to find the good in any situation, as ascribed to you by your associates, must be a pre-condition for choosing to spend one’s career treating people with HIV/AIDS in the Castro District of San Francisco, or for calling a “blessing” your own accidental near-death because it helped you understand better your patients. “Caring about the big picture”—those words describe the emphasis you have put on the psychiatric and spiritual aspects of AIDS and on medical ethics. These broader and deeper concerns have breathed life into not only your primary care practice but your extensive writing and lecturing and your service as associate clinical professor at the University of California at San Francisco Medical School. They likewise have characterized your work with the San Francisco Medical Society’s Ethics Committee , AIDS Committee, and Board of Directors, and as president of Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights. At a time in the history of health care when efficiency is all, you have worked with tenacity and grace to help the profession find the powerful good that can be accomplished through healing, in all senses, with humane treatment those struggling to fight with dignity the effects on their whole being of this dread disease.
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