After 30 years, Dr. Lambe is moving on, reflecting on local docs who helped her

Published 9:38 am Monday, December 15, 2014

It is Thanksgiving, and I have an overdue note of gratitude to those I have known in the Valley since July of 1984. Like everyone else in the world I have many roles; have doctored in the community, and am your neighbor, a parent and fellow consumer, too.

Awkwardly, sometimes I am the person you have seen chasing her cows, or her horses, or the odd chicken herd down the main road.  I now work on the Issaquah/Sammamish Plateau at Lakeside Family Physicians. It is a lovely, vibrant, clinic with marvelous partners and great staff.

After 30 years though, it is odd nonetheless, not to be driving toward the east, headed for the mountains, at dawn, and the people I know.

From 1984 onward, I was taught by doctors, the best in the Valley—Dr. Bill Kirshner, Dr. Ralph Eddings, Dr. Maurice Doerfler—and really, 30 years on, still fairly unsurpassed. Thirty years is a long time and too many years not to have uttered a public thanks.  The Valley has greatly changed and yet two things remain absolutely unaltered:

1. My feeling of gratitude to everyone I know within this Valley; patients, doctors, and fellow humans; your quality never fails or rings untrue.

2. The glory of the mountains, the way dawn brings them into sublime view.

Lakeside Family Physicians sits, also, high above and in the hills. I appreciate the honor of learning from all who I meet. It should not take thirty years to offer gratitude. That’s a doctor for you—free with bossy advice, but slow to say thanks.

Marybeth Lambe MD

Issaquah