8/19/12 The following is a copy of today’s email I received from a former fellow who trained with me a number of years ago. It is always encouraging to get a good report on a positive influence we may have had on another. This young man was one of the most proficient surgeons I have seen. He has had a wonderful career in private practice.
Dear Lanny,
I wanted to thankyou for everything that you taught me over many years, beginning in 1981. It wasn’t just about medicine and arthroscopy, but about life and the countless blessings that I have been given over a lifetime. Most recently, I had a routine checkup of all areas, and found that I had an 80 and 60% blockage in my LAD and two days later had a coronary arteriogram and two stents in my heart. I had been assyptomatic. I was on a treadmill one day later and back at work 3 days later. There was no damage to my heart. What a blessing! I have been blessed so many times and in so many ways by the lord, and I wouldn’t have understood this if I had not had not been taught by you.
I have said “thankyou Jesus” so many times and it bears repeating, Thankyou Jesus.
Talk to you again, gotta head to church.