David Marc Rose

Hi David- thinking of you today, thinking to remind myself of your calm presence and positive energy, and when it seems I am at my wits end and think I can no longer find the even keel I desperately want to present to the world, you come into my spiritual space and give me the model to follow. Life is this not always pleasant ride, the dynamic a constant ebb, and with so few who we can look to, to look at, who really represent the caliber sought, well, it's days like today when I need that...

He was one of a kind. My surgeon for all of my surgeries and I am just sorry I didn't have that last chat with him.

Dave was a great surgeon. I can say that with authority because he performed four different surgeries on me: and as an Endocrinologist I referred most of our patients who required thyroid or parathyroid surgery to him. He always seemed so calm and unflappable and confident and yet modest. Dave was always friendly and smiling and a pleasure to be around. He was clearly very adventuresome and went on many exciting vacations in addition to being totally devoted to his work as a physician. ...

Dr. Rose was my surgeon when I had breast cancer in 2012. He was the kindest, warmest, funniest doctor I've ever known and I was so, so fond of him I was almost sad to not need a surgeon when I got better! My deepest condolences to Dr. Rose's family and friends. He was a gift to us all!

I met David more than twenty years past, and was awestruck at the calm, collected, affable fellow who welcomed me into his home along the Santa Cruz cliffside drive. He had a New York City smarts, coupled with a laidback California cool - he seemed both at the head of the table as provider, and off to its side as observer; truly a man who appreciated, and was appreciated, in equal measure, by all in his presence. Over the many years I got to know David and his family, the more I saw a model...

I was acquainted with David at Woodside High, same class of '71; can't recall whether our paths crossed again at UC Santa Cruz, tho' logically they should have, as we both attended Crown College. Godspeed, David.

He was the surgeon who saved my life when I had medulary thyroid cancer 17 years ago. He called me "his little miracle " whenever I saw him afterwards at the hospital when I would be visiting someone there. Memory Eternal and prayers for his family.

He was the surgeon who saved my life when I had medulary thyroid cancer 17 years ago. He called me "his little miracle " whenever I saw him afterwards at the hospital when I would be visiting someone there. Memory Eternal and prayers for his family.

The world has lost a treasure. I am so sorry for your loss