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| Dr. Lipp and Samuel meet for a final appointment. |
Our boys have been seeing Dr. Lipp since the age of 4 and 7. He is the type of doctor we read about with nostalgia now. Dr. Lipp is consistently cheerful, engaged, knowledgeable, and never ever rushed. He was always my favorite doctor, and he wasn't even my doctor. He always talked the kids through everything. When the kids were younger, he'd pull out his pocket handkerchief and create animals on the fly. He listened soberly to Benjamin's angst over a hangnail, and told Benjamin the big toenail should always be cut straight, never at an angle. (Good advice for us all.) So it was a bittersweet day when Samuel went in for his annual physical, having just turned 17, and we learned Dr. Lipp was retiring. He has no inclination to retire, but his employer says he must go at the age of 75, and though he looks and acts far younger than that, out he goes. He assures us he will stay busy and happy in retirement and get some more fishing in. All I can say is that we were lucky to have Ben and Sam reach adulthood under Dr. Lipp's excellent care.
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