[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6700]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     A TRIBUTE TO TIM BURGESS, M.D.

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                        HON. MICHAEL C. BURGESS

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 14, 2005

  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to read into the Congressional 
Record, a tribute to my father, Dr. Tim Burgess, from his close 
associate and friend, Arvin Short.

       Intelligent, competent, compassionate, loving, wise, 
     fatherly, nurturing, clever, witty, emotionally kind and 
     concerned. Harry Meredith Burgess was all of these and more. 
     He was one of the finest people I have ever known and he was 
     literally the best doctor I have ever met.
       I came to Denton in 1974 full of vinegar. After meeting and 
     spending 10 minutes with Tim, I knew, without a doubt, that I 
     wanted and had to work with this man. And at that very 
     moment, although I had been to medical school for 4 years and 
     spent 5 years in surgical residency, I began my training as a 
     doctor.
       Tim Burgess did not demand, command, plead or suggest. He 
     taught by example, quietly and competently. He, more than any 
     other person in the field of medicine, made me a physician.
       Tim is, and always will be, the shining light of the 
     medical profession.

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