Dr. Thomas Dorman, MD
November 16, 1936 - March 10, 2009
Obituary
Dr. Thomas DORMAN, MD
Of the Paracelsus Clinic was born November 16, 1936 in Nairobi, Kenya, and passed away March 10, 2009 unexpectedly. Thomas is survived by his wife of 38 years, Alison Dorman, his four children Jill Scott Coletti, Michael Kelly Dorman, Andrew Katrina Dorman, and Erin Cavan Hadley, and his six grandchildren. He will also be sorely missed by many friends, coworkers, and patients. There will be no public services at his request.
I am very sorry to hear of Tom’s death We had been students together and spent a memorable summer at Johns Hopkins and other places on the East of USA. My heartfelt condolences go to his family. Wang Liston, Lochcarron, Scotland.
I share your sadness about Tom’s death. I met him at Johns Hopkins in 1964 when he was a medical student at Edinburgh and I a postdoctoral fellow in physiology.
We hung out together a lot that year with our friend William Liston. We visited one another over the decades. I am missing him. He was a fine doctor whose independent thinking earned my great respect. We shared interests in nutrition, environmental and orthopedic medicine.
I was very saddened to learn of Dr. Dorman’s untimely passing. My son had become his patient only last year and was still under active treatment. Dr. Dorman possessed a very unique and refreshing perspective in his approach to illness. He was able to go straight to the heart of one of my son’s very difficult problems, and we were very appreciative of his ministrations. We have too few physicians who truly understand the roots of many illnesses, such as he did. Please accept our heartfelt sympathy and condolences.
Joseph T. Morgan, MD, FAAEM.
Dear Dr. Dorman, Your life’s hard work and perserverance has changed my life. I will be enternally grateful. No one can walk in another man’s shoes, I wish you a resting peace. We all loved you, and you will be missed. Thank you for fighting the tough fight for so many years.
I have been watching the Ryder Cup from Gleneagles and reminiscing about my clerkship in Edinburgh with M,B, Matthews, MB in 1971. During that wonderful summer i met and was befriended by Tom Dorman. He was very kind and generous to me and my wife as well as other American students, sharing his knowledge and even his beloved Jaguar sedan. I learned a great deal from him.
So, I was saddened to come across the obituaries during my internet search today.
I had lost track of Tom since returning to the states. It is ironic that he spent some time just up the coast from me.
I send my belated condolences to Alison and their family.
L. Richard Greenstein, MD
I would like Dr. Dorman’s family to know how grateful I am for his medical help when I desperately needed help with intestinal issues; also with his bone-growth stimulation method (I forgot the term) he was able to keep me away from surgeons who wanted to cut me open and put a metal plate in to hold my broken bones (an avulsion of my fifth metatarsal) together. They said I would be a cripple if I didn’t have their surgery. Now my foot is fine, thanks to your husband, father and brother. Really, he was such a remarkable person, trying to fight the liberals/medical status quo-loving establishment and the general mindless liberalism at the time of his death. Now we have wonderful cutting-edge conservative groups like walkaway.com (started by a gay man, who loves Trump!) and black people like Candace Owen speaking out against liberals trying to make blacks accept “victimization” as their identity. Wow, he would be so excited if he could see the turn-around happening in America right now.. He was a brave man, I think. I think he did all that he could for as long as he could. I know I will always consider myself privileged to have come across an individual who practiced the “art” of medicine and was so very well educated about history and what “the Left” is up to. I am sorry I am SO TARDY in expressing my condolences and my appreciation of this amazing man. Without Dr. Dorman, I have struggled to keep moving forward with my health. My best wishes and thoughts are with all of you, even at this late date.