GARRY JOSEPH KIERNAN M.D.

I remember Gary everytime I enyer Memorial. I remember laying in the ER while he was looking at another patient and the nurse that was attending me said I cpuldn't be admitted as my new primary care doc in Sebastoppl didn't have priviliges there. I said I'm a stomach cancer survivor and sometome is bad wrong in my belly. Gary turned around and recognized me from a previous 20 day visit I had there a couple years prior. He turned and told the admitting nurse "admit this man, he is MY patient"!...

I WAS JUST DOWN ON STATION 2 AT MCDH IN FORT BRAGG CA TALKING ABOUT THE BEST DOCTOR I'V EVER KNOWN. WHEN I SAID DR. KIERNAN A NURSE SAID HOW SAD IT WAS HE PASSED AWAY. I'M SO SORRY TO HEAR THAT. WHAT I REMEMBER THE MOST WAS HIS KINDNESS TO EVERYONE. I ALSO REMEMBER HOW HIS WIFE NANCY WOULD CALL THE ER AND ASK ME IF HER "BOYFRIEND" WAS AVAILABLE ABD HE ALWAYS WAS FOR HER. SUE SPARACINO

Garry and I just missed reconnection of an old friendship in Fribourg back in 1972 after I finally found a picture of him again on the internet on October 29th 2012. One year ago I have been very happy after searching for more than 2 years a person of who had forgotten the last name. It was a long and difficult search, probably because Garry was not popular on the internet but popular taking time caring of his friends and patients. Now, this obituary that makes him easy to find on the net…...

Dear Nancy,
Ever since you and Garry became one with another I have found comfort in the fact that you were always together ("attached at the hip", according to Pauline), in love and the perfect match for each other. The terrible news of his passing reached me when, for some reason unknown to me, I entered his name on google. The Earth can ill afford the loss of a man like Garry. I am profoundly saddened for your pain and lifted up by the way this tragedy has touched those who know...