I bought the very unhappy information at the moment that Ian Morrison died peacefully at residence yesterday. He had been sick and in hospice for a while however a couple of months again he informed me that he was going for Jimmy Carter’s file. Ian was my first boss in American well being care after I labored for him at Institute for the Future and he was as form and wonderful as he was humorous and educated. I used to be very glad that after I began THCBGang through the pandemic that he was a daily member.
Ian spent a long time working with everybody throughout well being care in American and internationally, however as he used to say primarily was paid to insult folks. That he did it so humorously and usefully was the explanation he stored being invited again. Any Ian Morrison keynote at a giant well being care convention was each an opportunity to be taught one thing and snort hysterically.
He additionally by no means ignored the prospect to assist these attempting to make well being care fairer and extra equitable, serving on the boards of Martin Luther King Jr hospital, the California Healthcare Basis and lots of others. He remained a jovial Glaswegian socialist at coronary heart.
Ian preferred to say that he went from Scotland the place loss of life was imminent, to Canada the place loss of life was inevitable, to California the place loss of life was non-obligatory. Sadly that final crack wasn’t fairly true.
My coronary heart goes out to his spouse Nora and their youngsters and grandchildren. There’ll be a extra formal obituary and a celebration of his life within the days and weeks to return–Matthew Holt
