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Sounds like you already know this, but your dad's a hero. Infinite respect for the folks who dedicate their lives to helping others.
by felbane 1y ago
Sounds like you already know this, but your dad's a hero. Infinite respect for the folks who dedicate their lives to helping others.
- akharris 1y agoThanks for saying that. Here's a bit more about him from the obituary my sister wrote: https://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/pnys1147090 https://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/pnys1147090
- hasmolo 1y agowhat a guy, your dad was a great person
- akharris 1y agoThank you.
- phonon 1y agoBaruch dayan emes. He seemed like an extraordinary person.
- akharris 1y agoThank you so much. He was.
- throwaway2037 1y agoThis obituary is so well written that it could be a front page star on HN. I am not joking. Incredible. You dad was the like the good guy version of the Terminator -- unstoppable in all forms.
- akharris 1y agoThank you. My sister is an incredible write and he was a perfect subject.
- sizzle 1y agoSorry for your loss. He saved so many lives, what an incredible legacy he left on the world. He deserves to be celebrated widely. Please make a Wikipedia entry for his accomplishments?
- akharris 1y agoThank you. I've only ever had bad luck creating Wikipedia entries, though it's been a while.
- croisillon 1y agofor people outside US: https://web.archive.org/web/20250415180024/https://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/pnys1147090/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250415180024/https://www.north...
- thrdbndndn 1y agoI'm "outside US" and I can open the link directly. Is it blocked somewhere?
- croisillon 1y agoi get constantly redirected to https://eu.northjersey.com/ https://eu.northjersey.com/ probably because of GDPR or something
- sparklingmango 1y agoWow. Thank you for sharing. May his memory be a blessing to you and yours.
- akharris 1y agoThank you.
- ecshafer 1y ago> he recalled that when starting his residency at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia in 1970, the survival rate for the sick children was only 30 percent Jesus, 30 percent survival rate of children. I couldn't image working in that kind of situation and not be emotionally destroyed. > Going from a 30 percent to an 80 percent cure rate, I'd say we are getting there Your father is a literal hero.
- akharris 1y agoThank you. What I love about that quote is that he knew that, some day, the cure rate would go even higher.