Dr. Michael Copass, Seattle native, neurologist, Vietnam Army veteran/physician, and long-time head of the Harborview Medical Center’s Emergency Department, is a living legend in the Seattle area and in emergency medicine in our country. On July 26, 2015, I traveled to Sequim, Washington, to the home of Dr. Copass. Harborview physician Dr. David Carlbom and his wife, Dr. Judith Rayl (a retired physician and abstract photographer), accompanied me. I recorded this interview with Dr. Copass and his wife, Lucy, at their kitchen table. He spoke about his philosophy of care (“everyone is a gold coin”; about how the Seattle of the 1970s (as, perhaps, now) had “no organized plan for dealing with sadness”; about the creation of Harborview’s pioneering sexual assault center in 1972 by social worker Lucy Berliner, saying she did this by “churning through masculine indifference”; about the creation of King County’s stellar Medic One system of pre-hospital emergency care; about many other aspects of his long professional medical career.
I was a patient of Dr Copass for a few years he literally saved my life I have a seizure disorder. He was an excellent doctor and also his team was so good with me and my family.
Mike was a Godsend to me. He helped me professionally and spiritually.
Fabulous!
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