A goodbye letter from Dr. Juli Schneider to her patients

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Dr. Juli Schneider has worked for Estes Park Health for seven years as an internal medicine physician.

To my patients:

After careful consideration, I have decided to resign from Estes Park Health. This decision is both exhilarating and heartbreaking, and was not arrived at lightly.

I want you to know that in my nearly seven years of practice in Estes Park, all of you have become my second family. Working as a hospitalist for several years prior to settling here, I never anticipated that my pivot into primary care would lead to the authentic connections, love and investment in each other that we have developed over these years.

In the face of medical and life challenges, I hope that I have at least been a patient sounding board and soft place to land, as you have been for me.

You have shown me that life is not meant to be taken for granted. It is a gift; open it up and see what is inside now rather than stowing it away to be opened and experienced down the road.

Furthermore, I have decided to take a step back from medicine to see and experience the things that I otherwise wouldn’t until formal retirement, and before I may not be able to do so.

After my last day on September 4, I will take some down time, then set off on a yearlong adventure of travel to 17 countries over four continents.

I will miss all of you enormously, and as such, there will likely be times that I regret this decision. Yet I know it is the right one for me, at this moment in my life.

With all my love and well wishes,

Juli Schneider, MD
Internal Medicine Primary Care
Estes Park Health Physicians Clinic