Glen Lillington

Dr. Lillington was a gentleman physician, who was wise and compassionate and a terrific teacher. it was a pleasure to work with him and learn from him while i was on faculty in Stanford University. Every day i remember his good humour and his remarkable bedside manner which made breaking bad news to patients so gentle. Glen was a true expert in his field and his self -deprecating style disguised a keen intellect and a wisdom which is simply not taught in today's medical schools. I cherish...

I clearly remember Dr Lillington from the days when we learned about egophany and whispered pectoriloquy on exam, and the spectacle sign and silhouetting on chest x-ray, all before the advent of chest CT scans. We spent hours learning to interpret pulmonary function tests, and also developed our clinical skills at the bedside with mentors such as Dr Lillington. We became expert at finding symptoms and then at the subtleties of exam, making diagnoses with interlocking pieces of information...

My thoughts are with Dr. Lillington's entire family -- as a medical student and resident at UCD in the late 70s and early 80's, he could always be relied upon for pertinent teaching delivered with style and humor. He was an important influence for a generation of medical students and residents, not only for his clinical skills, but for what he taught about the art and humanity of medicine.
UCD School of Medicine 1979
UCD Internal Medicine Residency 1982

Sympathy And Condolences To Mrs. Professor Glen A Lillington MD And Family.

Professor Glen A Lillington's Interpretation Of Medical Professionalism Stands Worthy Of Emulation.

Under His Aegis As A Medical Student, I Came To Understand Patient Care As An Ongoing And Evolving Decision-Making Process Of Systematically Gathering And Synthesizing Disparate Patient Information, Both Objective/Subjective And Internal/External.


With Deep...

Thank you so much for these wonderful posts remembering my father. We only would have had occasional glimpses of his working and teaching life -- as that is where he disappeared off to each day! -- so they give our family a different and lovely perspective. We have so many great memories of him and these kind reminiscences will be added to them and have given all of us a smile at a difficult time.

Bye Glen. You taught me how to read a chest x-ray in all it's splendor. You showed me how to treat colleagues, staff and trainees with respect. You were a wonderful clinical doc.
You will be missed.
UCD School of Medicine Class of 1978

I took one of my first clinical electives with Glen Lillington. I was second year at UC Davis. We had one morning a week at an outpatient specialty clinic for each quarter. I went to his clinic once a week for a while and shadowed him. I thinnk it might have been the public health Tb clinic. He taught me that the way to diagnose early liver toxicity from the Tb drugs was based on loss of appetite and nausea from the smell of food. "Ask them if they can look a square meal in the face" he told...

Dr.Lillington was one of the most influential and approachable attending physicians during my Internal Medicine Internship and Residency at UC Davis. I still vividly remember a case in which he provided incredible consultation. We had a young lady on service with absolutely intractable bronchospasm; no matter what we tried she remained hypoxic and dyspneic. Several Pulmonary consultants declined to perform bronchoscopy because of her persistent hypoxia and reluctance to intubate her. We...