Dr. A. Richard Grossman, founder and co-medical director of the Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks, is photographed in the hallway of his office in 2009. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Grossman finishes a tough family conference at which he informed the parents of boy who’d suffered an electrical shock that he must amputate a foot. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Grossman describes the condition of two Hart High School students he treated for burns they received in a science experiment. (Frank Wiese / Los Angeles Times)
Grossman, weary from an emotionally and physically taxing operation, summons up the energy necessary to perform another surgery. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Grossman, who many colleagues and patients said had an outstanding bedside manner, speaks with Glendale firefighter Scott French, who suffered second- and third-degree burns. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Despite being in immense pain and half groggy from anesthesia, patient Ryan Wilson does his best E.T impersonation by touching Grossman’s finger less than an hour after the boy’s surgery. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Grossman, who once suffered a broken back, stretches after a long morning of surgery outside the burn-tratment center with his son, Dr. Peter Grossman. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Grossman pauses after an intensive session of surgery on a 9-year-old boy who was severely burned by an electric shock. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
