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Michael Stuart MD
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Here's the Masterful President of Delfini & UW Clinical Assistant Professor, enjoying a Seattle-ish afternoon with his (ex-) dog, Moby...(of whom, we find, he could not be master...) |
EBM visionary and maestro of education, Mike Stuart (also known in select circles as "Dr. Darling"), is a self-effacing, gentle genius— who refused to give Sheri permission to put up this page — but, since she's the Webmistress, there's nothing he can do about it except cut off the payments to our IP provider. (And Sheri knows he isn't about to do that!) A truly brilliant and fun man, he is also one of the sweetest , most charming people on the planet! Big time! One of the secrets about Mike that few people know is that he a wordsmith and true poet (he will aggressively deny this). He delights in messing with people's minds (on occasion) with his totally random, rapid-fire and non-stop associations. When he decided to retire from Group Health, he told people it was his dream to just spend time freely-associating — but in truth, only his lovely wife, Linda— who is the only real artist referenced on this page — his knock-out gorgeous and talented daughters, Amy and Vicky (and soon-to-find-out, Amy's new husband, Mark), and the plagued-by-free-associations-Sheri, really know what this actually means. He has the ability to remember lyrics to billions of songs (some of which need to be forgotten for all time by everybody!) Yet to hear him croon the Teddy Bear's Picnic is one of the sweetest and greatest delights of the universe. He has a delightful ability to coin some very insightful phrases with well-selected suffixes like -ish and -istic, -ism, and -ster and -aceous— as in all things are -istic; as in hungry for a meal becomes, starvaceous; as in the Mobester (see ex-dog above) and, well — the delightful, "delightism." His accent is Spokanese. Which only a few ears can recognize as such (Sheri's being one). Just listen for the switched short i's and short e's — as in "pin" for "pen" and "melk" for "milk." Coming from his mouth, the name of one of the companies we routinely work with — Sanofi-Synthelabo — will never stop sounding like, Santa Fe. And just ask him to pronounce the name of one of the authors whose studies we occasionally quote — the definitely French, Damoiseau, manages to turn into the Czech-sounding name of "Damescue." He is becoming quite a chef! The first time he chopped garlic, he left the papers on. He told me he spent hours retrieving the little bits so Linda wouldn't find them, and then still kept finding secret fragments of them months later. He is passionate about all that he eats and relishes every dish set before him. Every meal that he enjoys becomes, "The best meal I've ever had!!!" (Very forward looking, he.) He is a "savory" savorer. His ancestry used to be Scottish (which Sheri knows to be factually true), but when he started getting into all things Irish, an Irishman he became (citing the legitimacy of being such through an uncle at Trinity — escaped Scotsman, though he be). He jogs blind as a bat, come rain, rain or rain ('tis Seattle, after all) — and hooray for the polite Seattle drivers for nicely dodging him and letting him continue on unsquished to be a god-send for us all! He'd be pried off the pavement if he lived in beautiful San Diego — home of the scariest drivers Sheri's ever witnessed. ("It's a video game! Or top gun! Or, or, or — hmmm, I guess "insanity" works as a descriptor.) A true elfster and master of quirkisms and all things delightfully elfish — he's the beautiful, beatific elfin in Delfini. This Website is actually a tribute to Mike, from Sheri, in recognition of his incredible contributions to humanity, his compassion and humaneness, his wisdom and invaluable insights, his astounding hard work, his leadership which can move health care into a vibrant future — and all that is magical and swell about him. Enough cannot be said. (And by the way, about Moby — he went into exile when he just couldn't help himself from nibbling on Linda — waaaaay too aggressively, way too hard and way too much! When Mike gets too sassy with Sheri, she asks him, "Are you done pulling a Moby on me?" Thus Moby lives on in Delfini-land. It is just a wee challenging working by phone and email so much, which does result in the occasional Moby-attack, sweet though we may be!) |
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And maker of jewelry...as
well as mischief...(with pretty Seattle in the background)...
