RIP Dr. Justin

[Drunk Monk]

StanfordEM @StanfordEMED Stanford & the EM community lost a skilled colleague and valued family member this week. Justin Lemieux, MD, assist. clinical prof. and former @StanfordEMED EMS fellow was also a FEMA physician and trained first responders throughout CA. Our hearts are with his family & friends. 88 2:55 PM - Aug 9, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy



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This is the suicide I mentioned over the weekend.  He was 2nd gen Rock Med.  I knew his mom very well as she was one of the people who helped build the small show model with me - those Warfield daze when I used to work at AFS.  So many shows, so blurry.  I didn't know Justin that well.  He was a cool doc, always came in with an entourage of interns, nursing & med students, often wore flip flops.  His mom moved to CT and I can't remember when I last saw either of them.  But it was such a shocker.  He shot himself.  He got married recently, some sort of secret elopement, and then she dumped him.  So tragic.  I'm still in denial.

[Drunk Monk]

Just came from his memorial at the Warfield. Saw many old friends, several who I haven’t seen in years. Tough memorial. So many memories came flooding back about Justin. He was raised at the Warfield and I had sorta blocked a lot of that out. I didn’t know him well as an adult, after he came back from Med school, but now I remember him as a little kid, coloring cartoons as we slopped drunks in our dungeoness speakeasy. Such a tragic loss. So heartbreaking.

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