Dr Pryor was one of those people who are too good to be true. he was an amazing surgeon, but above all he was one of those specail people. he really cared about mankind and was always there to help. he made everyone feel special. he was an amazing teacher and would take the time to answer anyone's questions. many times (often rightfully so) surgeons have a reputation of having a short temper, being demanding, and frequently not nice people. many use the excuse that they are just perfectionists. Dr Pryor showed that you can be a perfectionist and a nice humann being. as i have been writing these blogs, i have often wished that had the eloquent style that he had. he frquently wrote about being a doctor in philly and the struggles associated. he compared what he saw in the inner city to what he saw in iraq. those who are perceptive may note that i have written about him in the past tense. this is not due to the fact that my service with him was in the past......he is perhaps the greatest loss of the war in iraq. he deployed again last year and was killed in a mortar attack on Christmas Day 2008. i did not know him well enough to go on about his life. we had many conversations while working, but never hung out outside of the hospital as both of us always semmed to be there anyway. i did attend his funeral (i was able to talk my wife into it as well) and it was extremely well attended. they had to move it to the biggest cathedral in philly. he had touched that many lives. it was attended by patients he had treated, the many colleagues he warked with and a great number of us in the military whose lives he had enriched. we had e-mailed each other many times when we had returned, always promising to get together. he asked me to present at a nursing conference which he was involved in, but the timing didn't work out. that is one big regret for me as i wish i would have taken the time to get together. he was an amazing person. i ask each and every one of you to visit the website and learn more about him because i have not done his memory justice. it is :
drjohnpryor.com i also would ask that you google him and learn more. the words for me today are difficult for some reason........thanks again