A Delaware County cardiologist who founded Marple Medical Associates in 1968 in Broomall died Dec. 7 in Bryn Mawr. He was 89, writes Stacey Burling for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Dr. Myron E. Resnick also served as co-chief of medicine at the now-closed Haverford Hospital.

He had a reputation for seeing newly admitted hospital patients at all hours of the day or night.

After retirement, he volunteered at a Chester clinic, according to his daughter, Rosalind Resnick.

Dr. Resnick started out practicing internal medicine but switched to cardiology years later after he had touched a patient’s beating heart during a medical lecture.

 “He was so moved by that experience that that’s one of the reasons he became a cardiologist,” his daughter said.

Dr. Resnick never turned down a patient, even when they could only pay with fruit baskets or cookies.

Dr. Resnick served as a doctor on the USS General H.W. Butner, a troop carrier, from 1957 to 1959 before working briefly at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.

He was proud of his diagnostic skills and a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes and detective novels.

“That’s how he saw himself as a doctor,” Rosalind Resnick said.

Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer about the life of cardiologist Dr. Myron E. Resnick.