Ahead Of His Time

Yesterday my boss brought in a beautiful picture. It was made by the OCD Foundation as a memorial for her deceased husband. It was a great picture of the two of them with handwritten notes from other famous doctors in the psychiatry field. I read each paragraph and it brought back memories of the man I knew for a short time before he got sick and no longer came to work. He was a brilliant man. We used to say the he was like Albert Einstein with the same fluff of messy hair. He was a poet and danced the tango at parties. One paragraph struck me the most. It said that while years ago people though he was a bit crazy, it turned out that he was really a brilliant man who was just ahead of his time. Every theory that he had regarding OCD came true. It was not mental as we all thought. It was biological. The medicines he smuggled in from Canada are now in our medicine cabinets. Without him and his drug trials, people would not have relief from a debilitating condition. This morning I will find a wall to hang the picture on for all to see.