Lives saved and lost

On the afternoon of April 12, deputies with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department responding to a 911 emergency call found 50-year-old Dr Kerman Dubash, one of the senior veterinarians at Pusch Ridge Pet Clinic (PRPC), lying unresponsive and lifeless on the floor of her sprawling, upscale residence. They tried resuscitating her and rushed her to Oro Valley Hospital where she remained on life support for the next nine days until the end came on April 21, reported Tucson News Now (TNN) of April 24. Her husband George Majewski, a former veterinarian whose license was revoked five years ago after a threatening run-in with a client has been charged with first degree murder and interred in the Pima County Jail after investigators found signs of a struggle, added TNN.

Dr Kerman Dubash: patient with pets

Detectives who seized four handguns, five rifles and a shot gun from their residence was told by the couple’s 11-year-old daughter Ayeesha that she woke up with her mother’s screams and found her father hitting her mother with the butt of a pistol, it was reported on 104.1 KQTH Tucson’s News and Talks. When Majewski called 911 he confessed that he had strangled his wife because he feared she was "poisoning” him and his daughter. He also claimed to be under a lot of stress after having "lost a significant amount of money to bad investments.”
"She loved her clients. She cared about everybody and everything. She was a wonderful, wonderful lady with a big heart,” TNN quoted Christina Shehorn, lead veterinary technician at PRPC who had known Dubash for 16 years and considered her "part of my family, very close friend and co-worker.” Often the first to arrive at the Clinic each morning and the last to leave every night, several of her clients attested to Dubash’s kind, gentle and patient handling of their pets. Kathy Rivkind recalled how Dubash saved the life of her three-month-old pug when he was bitten by a rattle snake: "I didn’t have to take him to emergency and she chose to accept him, kept him overnight and saved his life.” The PRPC was overflowing with flowers, cards and donations made out to Ayeesha.
"She was a genuine animal lover and praised for her sincerity,” attested architect Phiroze Javeri who first brought this news to Parsiana’s attention. Apparently every year Dubash would come visiting her family in India.
In their introduction to the veterinarian, the PRPC website states that Dubash was a 1986 graduate of Bombay Veterinary College. In 1994 she earned her MSc in veterinary preventative medicine at the Ohio State University and completed an internship in Small and Large Animal Medicine and Surgery at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Thereafter she practised in several hospitals in Tucson, Arizona, Chicago, Illinois and New York, and was a teaching assistant at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Florida, Gainesville. An avid hiker who enjoyed exploring the open spaces of Arizona with her family, they had two miniature horses Blackberry and Spotted Eagle.
Sixty-two-year-old Majewski, according to a report in Veterinary Practice News, had been placed on a year’s probation in 2004 by the Arizona State Veterinary Medical Examining Board because of poor medical care involving a rabbit, and two years’ probation in 2009 because of neglecting a dog. In 2010 his license was cancelled after he acknowledged having psychological problems and being suicidal. A letter from his psychiatrist described him as suffering from severe mental illness and bipolar disorder. Raised in Poland where he and his family were severely persecuted by the Communist government before they defected to the West, the board’s decisions against him had "triggered a severe relapse of his post traumatic stress disorder,” declared psychiatrist James C. Van Doren.