The Indiana Osteopathic family lost a great man when Capt. Robert C. Brooksby, D.O. was killed on October 1.\u00a0 Bob was a friend and a mentor.\u00a0 His loss has caused a whirlwind of emotions in me \u2013 everything from complete denial to absolute laughter and joy.\u00a0 I looked up to Bob, as many of us have looked up to someone during our training or practice life.\u00a0 He did things that I could not do (or so I thought).\u00a0 I thought that I would be learning from Bob for many years and so did not spend as much active time with him as I would have liked to.<\/p>\n
Bob\u2019s passing has led me to a shift in perspective.\u00a0 I find myself reviewing all of the conversations that I can remember \u2013 looking for the pearls of wisdom that I may have overlooked.\u00a0 In retrospect, they all were pearls.\u00a0 Bob used to tell me \u201cWe are a spiritual being having a physical experience\u201d.\u00a0 I did not really understand that until last week.<\/p>\n
A few of Bob\u2019s patients have trickled into my office thus far (only two weeks after his death) and I realized that Bob is still teaching me.\u00a0 One of Bob\u2019s favorite phrases was \u201cBe Still and Know\u201d – it was the title of his book and was on a plaque on a wall in his office.\u00a0 I hear Bob in my head when his patients walk in the room, mostly the \u201cBe Still\u201d message, to keep me from running away, but also the \u201cBe (A.T.) Still\u201d message that, just like the Old Doctor, this person has come to me for help with an affliction. \u00a0Dr. Still did not run away, but applied himself and reasoned through it.\u00a0 That is how our profession has grown.\u00a0 It is how Bob practiced.\u00a0 It is how I am learning in my residency.\u00a0 I hear Bob reminding me not to forget my roots and to keep learning.\u00a0 For this and many other things I am richer to have known him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Indiana Osteopathic family lost a great man when Capt. Robert C. Brooksby, D.O. was killed on October 1.\u00a0 Bob was a friend and a mentor.\u00a0 His loss has caused a whirlwind of emotions in me \u2013 everything from complete denial to absolute laughter and joy.\u00a0 I looked up to Bob, as many of us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":634,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-648","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions\/840"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}