By COLlive reporter
Photos: Shalom Burkis/COLlive
An evening of appreciation and farewell to Rita Sachs, a longtime Physician Assistant in the Crown Heights community for over 24 years, was held on Wednesday evening.
Sachs was a PA at the medical practice of Dr. Eli Rosen in Crown Heights, and during the 24 years she has worked in his practice, has cared for hundreds of patients in the community.
In recent weeks, Sachs, who lives in Long Island and commuted to Brooklyn daily, has informed her patients that she will be fulfilling her dream of making Aliyah and will be moving to the Holy Land of Israel.
At an event at the home of Tzirl Goldman, women of all ages from the community gathered to say farewell and to emotionally thank Sachs for her devoted care for the past 2 and half decades.
Sachs told those in attendance she was “overwhelmed” by the gesture.
“I have been the luckiest woman in the world,” she said. “How many people get to go to work every day and they love what they do? And I have gotten up every day… even with the 3-hour commute and being exhausted, there hasn’t been a day that wasn’t some major satisfaction, some major connection… and to have that day in and day out for over 24 years is a huge bracha, and I am so cognizant of how fortunate I have been to have that.”
Sachs thanked the Crown Heights community for their warmth and friendship as well.
“Thank you for enveloping me in the community, for making it such a wonderful experience,” Sachs said. “It has been literally the honor and privilege of my life to have connections with each of you in this room. I feel like you are all my sisters,” she said.
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She’s compassionate
Really appreciated that about her
And when you spoke to her because you needed reassurance or were anxious, she gave you the time of day- you didn’t feel like a burden.
Wishing you much Health, Happiness, and success!!!!
we will really miss you Mrs Sachs
Thank you for all you have given to our community
Much hatzlacha.
So beautiful, nice way to show hakaros hatov
I like her a lot, very caring doctor. A very valuable, integral team member of Dr. Rosen office. Without her it will certainly not be the same. I will miss her. Wish her success in the holy land from my heart.
Wishing you much success! A wonderful person!
Very intelligent and understanding doctor.
Thank you Mrs. Sachs! Much success in your future endeavors in Eretz Hakodesh!
Of all the medical staff at the Kingston Avenue office Rita is indisputably the easiest to communicate with.
Thank you, Rita, for being so warmly human yet respectful of all your patients; You’re totally devoid of a common shortcoming among skilled medical professionals- projection of a deity complex, yet you are able to make the patient feel like she is in good, caring hands and getting truly superior medical care.
Hatzlochoh rabba in your next passage in life.
p.s. Hope you’re not actually planning to totally leave the field of medicine; that would be a serious waste of talent.