April 28, 1951 - September 19, 2022
Dr. Terry Badzinski left this world on September 19, 2022 at age 71 after a brief illness. He was born on April 28, 1951 to Albert and Margaret Badzinski in Cherokee, OK where his father was a pharmacist. Terry graduated from Enid High School in 1969, and from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in psychology in 1973. He enrolled in the inaugural class of the Oklahoma College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He graduated from there in 1977 to begin his life's work and fulfill his calling as a physician and trainer of young physicians.
As a primary care physician in Oklahoma City, his passion for Women's Health was confirmed and he returned to Tulsa, completing his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology from Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital in 1986. During that time his heart was drawn to his patients' struggles in infertility, so he completed extra training focusing on that at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. To this day, its hard to walk through a grocery store without at least once hearing, "There's my baby doctor!".
Dr. Badzinski is loved by many for the lives he has touched, enhanced, and made possible. He passionately and tirelessly shared his skills, knowledge, calmness, and humor with hundreds of students, residents, and colleagues. The needs of those myriads always preceded his own. In quiet, he read history for the lessons learned. He loved travel, and even when not traveling, would travel vicariously through maps, atlases, and reading.
He is preceded in death by his parents and survived by many who will always love and cherish him. He is survived by his wife Jean, of the home, his son Nicholas of Oklahoma City, his brother Gary of Jupiter, Fl., and by nieces and nephews Lori Bird of Oklahoma City, Laine Floyd of Rockingham, NC, and by Davin and Aaron Badzinski of Jupiter, FL.
Terry would not presume to have anyone take of their time to honor his life, but the family hopes that the many who were so richly affected by his life well lived will keep him alive in their thoughts and prayer and well wishes.
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