Former Kansas City Times medical correspondent Sean Hillen submitted this piece in honor of the late cardiologist E. Grey Dimond, founder of the School of Medicine at University of Missouri-Kansas City and the cardiology department at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Dimond died Nov. 3 at his home. A celebration of life will be Sunday at 1 p.m. at UMKC Pierson Auditorium, 5000 Rockhill Road.
“Stay skinny, don’t smoke.”
Such were the simple, sage words from a dry-witted Dr. E. Grey Dimond for a long, happy and fruitful life. Read more.