John Adrian Mulder: 1952-2025
I’ll be playing the organ for John Mulder’s memorial service on Sunday, May 18. My heart is heavy. Dr. John Mulder was not only a physician, loving husband and father, devout Christian, gifted musician, and internationally recognized palliative care expert. I am honored to boast that he was also my friend ! John died at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville on May 1, his body finally rejecting a transplanted lung that had extended his life by 8 years. He was 74. I could spend time telling of his extraordinary skills as a physician, of the hundreds of babies he lovingly and tenderly brought into this world, of the miraculous intervention in my personal medical history, of his internationally recognized skills in palliative care, and of his incredible musicianship, but, this is a HUMANTY FOR PRISONERS site. Still, the accolades are legion. John didn’t get involved with incarcerated men and women until I did…and if that goal was good enough for me, it was goo...