Richard H. Fine

Early Life

Richard Fine was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother, Sylvia Miller Fine, was of Ukrainian/Russian/Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his father, Arthur Fine, was of German Jewish descent.

Moving to San Francisco

Dick knew even before he finished medical school that he would leave the East Coast for California.

Inverness And Travel Destinations

Dick and Kathleen also shared a house in Inverness, California where they kept a sailboat, the Shiksa, with which he took many residents sailing after their grueling tours of duty on the hospital wards.

Late Life

In December 2014 the doctor himself was diagnosed with late stage cancer, which still didn’t prevent him from walking Sarah down the aisle at her wedding to Sergio Valentini in Buenos Aires in March 2015.