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Friends, patients, and colleagues are mourning and remembering a Tennessee doctor who was killed on Monday in Florida.Authorities said Dr. Michael Hood was piloting a small plane as it encountered engine failure and crashed into some trees and power lines shortly after taking off from Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville.Dr. Hood was a beloved and longtime doctor at a family practice in Newport, Tennessee."Everybody loves him, everybody loves him," said Nancy, a longtime patient from Newport. Hood had a way of connecting with anyone who walked through his door."It’s not this stiff uncomfortable thing waiting for a doctor. You know someone is walking into that office, and they care about you," she said, adding that his warm personality set him apart."People were drawn to him," she said. "He loved people, and they loved them back, and they responded to him on their level."Donnie Tate, an administrator of the Family Practice Center, where Dr.
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Friends, patients, and colleagues are mourning and remembering a Tennessee doctor who was killed on Monday in Florida.Authorities said Dr. Michael Hood was piloting a small plane as it encountered engine failure and crashed into some trees and power lines shortly after taking off from Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville.Dr. Hood was a beloved and longtime doctor at a family practice in Newport, Tennessee."Everybody loves him, everybody loves him," said Nancy, a longtime patient from Newport. Hood had a way of connecting with anyone who walked through his door."It’s not this stiff uncomfortable thing waiting for a doctor. You know someone is walking into that office, and they care about you," she said, adding that his warm personality set him apart."People were drawn to him," she said. "He loved people, and they loved them back, and they responded to him on their level."Donnie Tate, an administrator of the Family Practice Center, where Dr.
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