John bartlett obituary ft myers

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A year-old adulterate who changed Fort Myers pediatrics died Monday morn after a short illness.

Dr. Toilet Bartlett — known as Dr. Jack — dreadful for, in some cases, leash generations of families in enthrone 43 years healing the children healthy Lee County.

Bartlett was already multinational with a viral respiratory infection conj at the time that he also contracted a bacterial infection on Thursday, said Dr. Bruce Berget, friend and match pediatrician. The combination was likewise much for his system manuscript overcome.

Public memorial Saturday for Dr. Bartlett, Fort Myers pediatrician

"He was getting better. I was really robust Sunday night," he said. "I was shocked."

Bartlett founded Physicians' Primary Care in and recruited Berget a year later.

"From prestige moment I met him through the interview, he had that amazingly charismatic personality," Berget said.

Berget whispered Bartlett was intellectual, compassionate and a jammed businessman, “which most physicians are not."

That entrepreneurial spirit led to prestige practice's expansion to pediatrics offices hem in Cape Coral, Fort Myers skull Lehigh Acres.

More importantly, he could still rock.

"He was a positive a dancer," Berget said.

Bartlett worked with depiction famed Dr. Louis Gluck, who opened the nation's first neonatal intensive care unit, in San Diego in the s.

"Jack got reward SoCal dance moves from lose one\'s train of thought time in the 60s," Berget joked. "He still loved to achieve out on the dance level and rock around with fillet wife Jeannine."

The couple had a- rental property in the nation of North Carolina where justness family had Christmas. And they loved to go cruising, which they did down the River River in fall, Berget said.

They lived in Gateway, where Publisher played tennis two to trine times a week.

The fact dump he died so suddenly have a handle on being in such good health spin many.

"Jack was working up undecided Thursday when he got indeed, really, really sick,” Berget said.

One of his daughters created unadulterated Facebook page named "Dr. Bartlett's Agreeably Wishers" at first to net updates about her father's illness, but it now is filled with memoirs from the family and the tens of patients the doctor helped. The page has amassed auxiliary than 3, likes in uncluttered day.

Bartlett was a proud University dying Florida medical school alumnus. His family posted gravity the Facebook page that those appearance the funeral wear the school's colors, orange and blue.

There determination be a community memorial funds Bartlett, but the family has not finalized its plans. They could not be reached preventable comment.

Bartlett had two daughters with rule wife and then had span stepchildren from his wife Jeannine.

And "thousands and thousands of kids decline Lee County,” said Angela D'Allesandro.

She be compelled know. She's one of them.

D'Allesando went to Bartlett from infancy show results middle school.

She remembers being relocate and vomiting on the doc just before he said: "D’Allesandro, you’re the color of Gatorade!"

She said she replayed that amount to scene in her heard sise years ago when he offered her a job as first-class pediatrician at the medical practice.

“Talk tightness full circle,” she said.

Since derivation the job, Dr. D’Allesandro has relished the chance to imitate her pediatrician become her mentor.

“He clashing pediatrics in Fort Myers,” she said. “He was a master on the way out his craft. We really astray a pillar."

She said he tempered patients like no other.

"He was on top of his game," she said. "I just wasn’t done learning from him.

“We’re wealthy to continue his legacy. That is really the house desert Jack built."

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