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Founding members Siobhan Reynolds Kevin Byers Vanessa Mullin Alen J Salerian
Founding members Siobhan Reynolds Kevin Byers Vanessa Mullin Alen J Salerian
Solange MacArthur
A Good Lawyer At Providence Hospital
ALEN J SALERIAN MD
March 15, 2015
My fantastic life in America could not have happened
without a silent hero an attorney (
John?) Whom I met at a bar near Dupont Circle in Washington DC in early April
1972.
That evening I was trying to get drunk to bury my suicidal
depression from having lost my internship at Providence Hospital in Washington
DC.
Earlier that day
I had been given my plane tickets to return to a Istanbul Turkey . How could I
face my parents, my tribe my people? How could I explain my bad luck in America
in such a short time, only after four months I had begun my internship?
I was unwise of
course to sleep with my girlfriend at my townhouse owned by Providence A Catholic
Hospital with rigid rules. It did not matter that my townhouse was a few
blocks away from the hospital and I was paying rent or that my failure to follow
the hospital rules dId not have anything to do with my professional conduct.
Mother Teresa said rules are rules. You violated our rules you must go. The
medical director and the director of residency training express the same message, That's why I was in
a bar drinking that evening
This angel of a
lawyer drank with me that night. The following day he talked with mother Theresa
. It was magic. The following day I had
another internship ready for me at Prince Georges General Hospital.
This marvelous
man taught me that America was a place of rules and integrity.
I write this article to find THE
good man for us to express our gratitude . She was the
visitor in my townhouse that night and she lost her job. That of course was much before marriage and four kids in America.
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