DAVID GLOBUS Obituary

GLOBUS--Dr. David Leon. Dr. David Leon Globus has passed away peacefully in his Manhattan home after a brief illness. He would have been 93 on October 1st. Born in Kansas City, MO, Dr. Globus attended high school at Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, MO, graduating in 1947. He received his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in 1954. In 1958, after serving in the army in West Germany, he moved to New York City, and for six decades he practiced as an internist there with a specialty in nephrology. He maintained privileges at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he had been a resident in the early 1960s (a rarity at the time for Jewish doctors), and became a celebrated teacher of Physical Diagnosis. His patients, family, and many friends bore frequent witness not only to his remarkable diagnostic skill but also to his intelligence, warmth, and ebullience, and to the infectious joy he took in the pleasures his life so abundantly provided. Dr. Globus was married twice, first to Vivian Irwig Globus, whom he wed in Birmingham, AL in 1958. She passed away on March 24, 1973. Of his four children from that marriage, he is survived by two daughters, Laura Day and Martha Globus- Rodriguez; Laura's son, Samson Day, and his wife, Caroline Pires Day, and Laura's husband, Stephen Schiff; and Martha's children, Zachary A. Rodriguez and Isabel Rodriguez. Two other children from Dr. Globus's first marriage, Alexander Globus and Sarah Globus Goldfield, predeceased him. He is also survived by Alexander's ex-wife, Alison Mozias Globus, and their daughter, Vivian Globus, and by Sarah's widower, Herschel Goldfield, and their children, Ori Goldfield and Vivian Goldfield. In 1977, Dr. Globus married his second wife, Suellen Tuby Globus, who had three daughters from a previous marriage. Suellen passed away on June 3, 2020. Dr. Globus is survived by his stepchildren and their husbands: Tracy and Michael Nathanson, Daryl and Alan Eisenberg, and Allison and Lou Wallach, as well as by his step-grandchildren, Jillian Karson (and her husband, Micah Karson), Amanda Eisenberg, Jake Nathanson, Nicky Nathanson, Charlie Wallach, and Annie Wallach. Before his first marriage, Dr. Globus fathered another daughter, whom he became close to during his final years. Jacqueline Stoeckler and her daughter, Jelena, also survive him.

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Published by New York Times on Sep. 22, 2023.

Memories and Condolences
for DAVID GLOBUS

7 Entries

Warrick L. Barrett, MD

June 5, 2025

I have fond memories of Dr. Globus as one of my medical school clinical trainers. May God now provide him with wonderful circumstances in the spiritual realm.

Michael Roos

October 5, 2023

I gave him the vegetarian-eating lion New Yorker cartoon. I miss him. He was my Doc for over 40 years. With much sympathy to his family and friends Michael

Hugh C. Brewer III

October 2, 2023

David was a wonderful doctor and dear friend to both my dad and me. I will miss his wisdom and wit.

Don Eremin

October 1, 2023

My caring doctor for 43 years.

Jim Jenkins

September 26, 2023

Dave was my doctor for nearly 40 years, a wonderful man and a great diagnostician. I extend my sincere condolences to his family.

James J. Wynne

September 22, 2023

I first met David in January, 2000,when he and his wife, Suellen Tuby Globus, one of my first cousins, and I with my wife attended a funeral of a relative. Another of my cousins, Liz Kloner, and her husband were also there. Over shared grief, we all connected and established an ongoing close friendship.

We often got together for dinner at Le Colonial in Manhattan. I remember that David always wanted me to give him clever math puzzles that were challenging to high school students and "bright" adults. One that he relished was "The Monty Hall problem," a probability brain teaser (look it up!)

We had such good times together, and I truly miss him. My condolences to his children and grandchildren.

Roger Zissu

September 22, 2023

Dr. Globus was my personal physician for some 50 years. He was brilliant, became a personal friend and could not have been better at his art. In 2005 he saved me from an unnecessary Whiple operation by pointing out that if the reasons for having it were true, I would have been dead from metastatic pancreatic cancer. He adored good jokes and stories and was incredibly generous with his time and attention. He could recite off the top of his head the chemical make up and pharmacology of medicines and devoted his his life as a doctor to the extension of human life and health. He took enormous pleasure in the progress of medical science and knew personally and deeply appreciated Dr. Anthony Fauci I have missed him deeply since he retired and will miss him for the rest of my life..
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