From: Judith Bodenhausen

My son, Matthew Brooks, a patient of Elmer’s, had a series of rare diseases. Elmer went way above and beyond being Matthew’s pediatrician. He arranged for Matthew to see the head of pediatric neurology at UCSF which resulted in Matthew not having surgery for a non-existent brain tumor. Every meeting Elmer went to, he asked questions trying to figure out what Matthew had. After two-and-a-half years, we were told that he had juvenile migraine. Elmer worked with us to find treatments for this and for Matthew’s other poorly known illnesses. The man Matthew is today (a nurse practitioner) is, in many ways, due to Elmer’s having been his pediatrician.