C.M. Fisher – Master Clinician

vice served him well: ‘Keep warm, don’t complain, and if you get a break, take it.’ In the 60-odd years since, his over 200 publications have certainly justified his being fished out of the South Atlantic [2] . During his long career, although most of his publications have shown the name as a simple C.M. Fisher, some Charles Miller Fisher, MD, died quietly on April 14, 2012, a few months shy of his 99th birthday. Many readers of Cerebrovascular Diseases may not have had the opportunity to know him in life as he seldom traveled, and when travelling returned as soon as the commitment/meeting ended. No tourist or bon vivant, C.M.F., as referred to by his admirers, lived for semiology, neurology/pathology, wife, family, patients, and a few trainees. Thanks to the willingness of the German raider crew in 1941 to take on survivors of a brief gunfire exchange with the Canadian H.M.S. Voltaire, C.M.F. passed the war in a prison camp near Hamburg. There, he endured repeated Allied bombings incidental to early ordnance release from planes under Luftwaffe attack. Finally repatriated with the wounded in late 1944 [1] , he had his postgraduate training at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Actively publishing on a variety of neuropathological subjects, he was awarded a neuropathology fellowship at the Boston City Hospital where he began his career-long association with R.D. Adams. Vexed on return to Canada by being advised to abandon his growing interest in the field of stroke in favor of another subject ‘where there was still some work to be done’, he accepted the invitation to return to Boston in 1954 and join Dr. Adams following the latter’s appointment as the new Neurology chief at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His ship captain’s adPublished online: June 14, 2012