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Remembering Dr. Joe Wilber: A Fighter For All

Dr. Joe Wilber, a white Atlanta doctor, was honored at The Carter Center Sunday and in an AJC obit last week for his work with AIDS patients. I, too, remember Joe Wilber.

Dr. Joe Wilber, of Rochester, N.Y., finished Harvard Medical School and spent three years in residency in internal medicine at Grady Hospital before launching his medical career. Dr. Wilber, 86, who died Sunday, April 3, of Lou Gehrig's Disease was remembered for his trailblazing work in AIDS treatment during the 2000s in a service Sunday at The Carter Center and in a news obituary by Rick Badie in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week. I remember Dr. Wilber, too, for another trailblazing move right here in Cascade Heights, during the tumultuous Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. After his residency, Dr. Wilber set up practice in Atlanta and took care of anyone, regardless of ability to pay. I met Dr. Wilber at a meeting in the …

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