This has been forwarded to members of my group via TCEP (Texas College of Emergency Physicians). Sad loss for the EM community. She'll be missed.
E-mail as forwarded to us:
It is with great sadness that I share with you the death of my dear friend Carol Rivers, MD.
Carol died tonight much as she lived, teaching till the very end.
Carol had a ventral septal myomectomy on May 6th. From the first things got complicated. After 13 days in the ICU with every system failing for a day or two, we finally thought she would make it, all organs and limbs intact.
Sadly to say, at 2300 on May 18, 2010 the single person most responsible for thousands of boarded emergency physicians, who while studying for the boards learned better medical skills, died a sudden death, making her own diagnosis at the end.
She had every complication the residents could learn from, and then some, teaching us all how to be better physicians even while fighting for her life.
Please notify your membership that Carol has died. Still a leader, she is the first icon of the second generation, the trained in EM generation, to lead to the next life. A leader in this world, she has now set off on a journey we all will follow in time.
I have asked ACEP to reserve a room and time during the SA for Maine, Michigan, and Ohio to hold a memorial service in her honor, so all emergency physicians, who held her dear, may mourn and celebrate her life with each other.
While the world has lost Dr. Carol Rivers, many of us have lost Carol Rivers, dear friend and mentor.
Thank you for helping me through this great loss.
Sincerely,
Pam
Pam Bensen
Buffalo Junction, VA 24529
E-mail as forwarded to us:
It is with great sadness that I share with you the death of my dear friend Carol Rivers, MD.
Carol died tonight much as she lived, teaching till the very end.
Carol had a ventral septal myomectomy on May 6th. From the first things got complicated. After 13 days in the ICU with every system failing for a day or two, we finally thought she would make it, all organs and limbs intact.
Sadly to say, at 2300 on May 18, 2010 the single person most responsible for thousands of boarded emergency physicians, who while studying for the boards learned better medical skills, died a sudden death, making her own diagnosis at the end.
She had every complication the residents could learn from, and then some, teaching us all how to be better physicians even while fighting for her life.
Please notify your membership that Carol has died. Still a leader, she is the first icon of the second generation, the trained in EM generation, to lead to the next life. A leader in this world, she has now set off on a journey we all will follow in time.
I have asked ACEP to reserve a room and time during the SA for Maine, Michigan, and Ohio to hold a memorial service in her honor, so all emergency physicians, who held her dear, may mourn and celebrate her life with each other.
While the world has lost Dr. Carol Rivers, many of us have lost Carol Rivers, dear friend and mentor.
Thank you for helping me through this great loss.
Sincerely,
Pam
Pam Bensen
Buffalo Junction, VA 24529