FRIENDS MOURN LOSS OF ORIGINAL PIMS CLASS GRADUATE After completing his undergraduate studies at UF in 1970, Hudson began taking medical science courses at FSU, then became part of the first group of students to transfer back to the UF College of Medicine, where he enrolled in 1972 and graduated in ’75.   “It was common back then for Florida to send us a few students to fill out our class and Bruce Hudson came to us that way,’’ said Paul Elliott, former PIMS director.   After completing residency in Tucson, Arizona, Hudson moved his family to Arcadia to start his first practice in family medicine. He wanted to have his first practice in a small town that needed him, said his wife, Elaine.   She said he would spend Wednesday afternoons making house calls on patients around Arcadia in his pick-up truck.   In 1982, Hudson moved his family to Bradenton, where he remained active as an internal medicine specialist until the time of his illness. Blake Medical Center, where he died in late July, named him Doctor of the Year in 2002.   "He was one of the best physicians we have ever had," Bradenton cardiologist Dr. George Thomas told the Bradenton Herald. "He was a good human being. He cared for his patients. For him, practicing medicine was a way of life.   “Every physician here will say that if he or she had to see an internist, he would be their first choice. He was held in very high respect by not only the medical community, but the patient community and the community at large."

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