Full Text of HR1284 098th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Dr. Gary L. Turpin on the | 4 | | occasion of his retirement from the practice of medicine; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Gary Turpin has served the people of the City | 6 | | of Greenfield and Greene County for 50 years; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Gary Turpin graduated from Carrollton High | 8 | | School and the University of Illinois; after graduation, he | 9 | | returned to his native Greene County to establish his medical | 10 | | practice at the Fillager Clinic on September 1, 1964; he worked | 11 | | every day of his career at the Fillager Clinic, except for 1968 | 12 | | and 1969, when he served our nation while assigned to a Mobile | 13 | | Army Surgical Hospital in Vietnam; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Gary Turpin has treated everything from bumps, | 15 | | bruises, and sore throats to appendectomies and delivering | 16 | | babies; he also made house calls for the entirety of his | 17 | | career; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Gary Turpin told the Greene Prairie Press that | 19 | | "I've always worked under the assumption that the practice of | 20 | | medicine is a sacred calling. Not that I'm sacred, but the | 21 | | practice of medicine is and you have to treat the patients with |
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| 1 | | a personal touch. Sometimes you have to just sit and talk with | 2 | | them and if you pay attention to what they are saying, you will | 3 | | learn a lot. I had a professor in medical school who was a | 4 | | brilliant fellow and he maintained you should take the time to | 5 | | listen to your patients. If you will just sit there and listen | 6 | | they will tell you the diagnosis. I've worked under that | 7 | | principle all these years."; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Gary Turpin has touched the lives of hundreds, | 9 | | if not thousands, of people in Greene County during his 50 | 10 | | years of service; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Gary Turpin has announced his retirement from | 12 | | the medical field effective September 30, 2014; therefore, be | 13 | | it
| 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 15 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 16 | | we congratulate Dr. Gary L. Turpin on the occasion of his | 17 | | retirement, thank him for his decades of service to the | 18 | | community and to our nation, and wish him and his wife, Amy, | 19 | | all the best in the years to come; and be it further
| 20 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 | | presented to Dr. Gary Turpin as a symbol of our esteem.
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