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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist Charles Krauthammer Honored at Shepherd Center
Charles Krauthammer, M.D., the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and national television news commentator who passed away this past June after a battle with recurring cancer, was honored Tuesday, July 24, during a memorial service at Shepherd Center.
Dr.
Krauthammer spent eight months at Shepherd Center last year and this year following complications from cancer surgery. A diving accident left him with a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the neck down.
His stay in Atlanta had a profound effect both on Dr.
Krauthammer and the Shepherd Center staff members who treated him.
As he wrote in a letter (see the image on this page or scroll to download a PDF file of the letter) addressed to the “Shepherd Family” less than a month before he died, “How you found a staff… so uniformly skilled, caring, competent and energetic is beyond me.
But you did it, and I congratulate y