In Recognition of Dr. Mark Highman of the San Mateo Medical Center
In Recognition of Dr. Mark Highman of the San Mateo Medical Center
HON. JACKIE SPEIER
OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Ms. SPEIER. Madam Speaker, I rise to honor Dr. Mark Highman, a
cardiologist who willingly chose the career path of public service
medicine over the more lucrative road of private practice. I feel very
fortunate to have known Dr. Highman for 30 years. Clearly, decades of
patients at the center who lacked insurance or the money to pay for it
appreciate his decision to practice at the San Mateo Medical Center.
He was appointed Medical Director of the Special Care Unit, Vice Chief of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology to the center in 1977. Dr. Highman also is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University.
The diversity of patients and their medical challenges prompted Dr. Highman to become certified in critical care. He considers treating the less fortunate to be, in his own words, "richly rewarding" and that speaks volumes to what this healer is all about. As a career-long medical musketeer he is the embodiment of the esprit de corps at the center.
Madam Speaker, Dr. Mark Highman is a hero of healthcare to a generation of the less fortunate in our county and State. The San Mateo Medical Foundation is right to honor his contributions at a special ceremony on April 30th.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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