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.
When word got out that Dick Fine was seriously ill, doctors, nurses, secretaries, clerks and family members teamed up to create a professionally produced film of his life and times entitled Biker with a Moral Compass: Dick Fine and the Evolving Culture of San Francisco General Hospital.