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It is with sadness and excitement that I am writing this letter to inform you of my retirement after almost 40 years of practicing medicine. I have so absolutely loved every minute of my medical career and all the fascinating and loving patients that I have encountered. Some of you I met 40 years ago in the emergency room, others in the intensive care unit or the delivery room or the hospital nursery. Others I have met during the time I was teaching medical students or during my time of operating cosmetic lasers in the family’s dermatology practice. I have watched many patients grow up, grow old, have children and grand children and enter their twilight years. I have always felt it was such a pleasure and a privilege to be allowed to help my patients attain their best health and go through their life’s journey with them. Recent demands on my time from aging parents, children and grandchildren have made it clear that I can no longer do a good job covering all these bases and my medical career as well.

By October 1 2022 I will no longer be seeing patients at DSA Dermatology but will continue to support my husband and my son in their practice of dermatology but only in an administrative and managerial role. I will dearly miss all of you and am so thankful to you for allowing me to enjoy the practice of medicine with such a wonderful group of people, but I am also looking forward to being a better daughter, spending more time as a more involved Mimi to my grandchildren and of course I will still be competing horses in Dressage!

I will finish the present patients that I have started or refer them to trusted colleagues. I will be in close contact with my nurses during the transition period and necessary questions about your treatments that I have initiated will be addressed and looked after by my nurses for you.