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I was going to write this upbeat New Year blog. I was feeling O.K. My family and I had had an up year this year, (2009 was not too good), and I wanted to let everyone know anything they dreamed could start to come true. Then on January 1st we got the news that Johnny Hudson had passed away on Christmas Day. He was an Editorial Advisory Board member of Clinician 1. He was also a great NP, but, more than that, a really good person who wanted to make a difference. We connected on an NP list serve years ago (yes, I am a PA) and became friends. He was an NP pioneer in neurosurgery. He had had an aortic dissection a number of years ago and was happy to be alive and well. He wanted to bring NPs and PAs together and wanted to practice neurosurgery. He also wanted to walk his daughter down the aisle at her upcoming wedding. He loved his wife so much. He cared about where both professions were going. In Yiddish we would say he was a “mensch”. So this son of Alabama took his wife on a cruise and passed away at sea on Christmas. How could I write of anything else?
Johnny, we will miss you. We will miss you on Clinician 1 and the other list serves you were on. We will miss your political views on how “we” could do things differently and do them better. We will miss your friendship and we will miss YOU.
I know we can do what you would have wanted us to do. We can continue to communicate. Yeah, us PAs and NPs together, trying to understand each other. We will continue to do it as a tribute to you.
Rest in Peace Johnny, son of Alabama and friend to all of us who cared enough to try to make some sense of all this craziness we find ourselves in.
We will miss you. Smile upon us.
Dave
Dave has been a PA, and later NP, leader for thirty years. He strongly believes that NPs and PAs must work together to insure a better future for both professions. Most recently Dave has been busy launching another dream; Clinician 1, the first internet community for PAs and NPs. In October 2008, Dave was honored by the New Jersey State society of PAs with its “Lifetime Achievement Award”.
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