DR. JOEL FREDERICK SIMON HOCHMAN

Gone but never forgotten, we speak of you often. My children were 3 and 4 when they meet Dr. Cochran, he called kids eaten-ups. They would run in and give him a hug when ever we had a visit. We speak of him often. Never forgotten. A good person! Empathy rarley found in any doctor! He cared! He showed he cared! Never forgotten. We both had tumors on our kidney, his left and my right. Mine found early by a MRI he sent me too get for my back. He hadnt written what the MRI was for, so they...

Joel and I studied philosophy together at Rice University in the early 1960s and hung out as well. I was best man at his first marriage whose bride flashed a victory sign heading for the altar where a glass was tromped. We kept in touch when he attended medical school while I completed an architecture degree before I left Houston for distant lands, last half-century in New York City. We mourned the death of mutual friend Don Ramsey, a trio of ruckus lovers and performers. Joel's cutting wit...

Thought of Dr. Hochman today and my husband and I starting talk about he helped me with my how kind he was but he could also look at you with the over his glasses stare when he thought you should take care of yourself better. Know that you missed and you made a difference in this world.

I am always amazed and impressed by Joel's many contributions to medicine and also by what a well-rounded man he was: piloting, scuba-diving, and all his many interests and his humanitarian philosophy. I knew him as a carefree somewhat devil-may-care student at Rice, chasing girls and attending football games. We always had fun and many discussions about life and love and always about Rice. I'm so sorry that he's gone. I have ommented before.

You continue to be remembered and appreciated, Dr. Hochman. May God bless your family who we know are missing you.

I had the pleasure of meeting Joel when he traveled here to New Zealand.
Although brief, we shared some quality time talking, me about my Maori heritage.
He took a piece of my art back to the states and we remained in contact.
Having not heard from him for awhile, I tried to track him down. I only just saw this obituary last night.
My condolences to the family.
Blaine...

I knew Joel at Rice University. We hung out in the coffee shop a lot, with other friends, Dennis Ashton and Honor Blanchard, among many.
Joel had wide interests and was an excellent scholar. He liked to blow off steam, too, which he did by attending Southwest Conference (RIP) games at Rice Stadium and rooting for the Owls. He also liked to dance, and drive his sporty little Triumph. We had fun going to the beach and tooling around Houston. One never realizes how precious these youthful...

My back has been hurting me so and the Doctors here don't do much. I thought of Dr. Hochman and wished he was here and I would drive the six hundred miles again to see him.

I miss him as my Doctor, and one of the most interesting man my husband and I have met. I admired he founded the Foundation for Pain and contributed regular. You are missed for your pain treatment as the great man you were. Hope to see you in heaven and you can treat my back : )

I miss Dr. Hochman every day. He saved my life and then helped wrest it back from the monster that is intractable pain. Dr. Hochman wasn't solely my pain management physician, he and I were close friends as well. My current pain doc is the only physician that comes close to Joel, but he's a distant second. They don't make them like Joel Hochman anymore.