Sunday, December 15, 2019
Dear Marlene and Family,
I am so sad on learning on Han’s passing December 5, 2019. I will always remember the unforgettable memories, we shared as a neurosurgeon to physician assistant in neurosurgery for 15 years. I am so grateful that I was introduced to this fantastic neurosurgeon by his first assistant Mr. Bob Alderich, to join the Marshfield Clinic department of neurosurgery in 1985. Han’s always had the excellent communication to patients undergoing major neurosurgical surgery which he educated me, the understanding of life’s trials in those needing emergency and neurosurgical care.
When I talk of him, in my memories, I am not sadden, but have many of his mentorship thoughts of my personal challenges, which made me an improved Physician Surgical Assistant and family man.
The enjoyment of his life travels of where he was born, and the high school and college graduation diplomas leading on to being a Green Beret of the Netherlands during the floods of Holland, his personal life, and neurosurgical profession at the Rockford Hospital we reviewed sometimes daily, led me to believe he has been a man of honorable respect.
Good buy my friend, and confidant.
Respectfully,
Thomas Ptak
