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A Sign of Professional Failure to Thrive?

Modena H. Wilson, MD, MPH

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(7):695.

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In this issue, Minkovitz et al¹ document pediatricians' decreased community involvement. I recommend this article as a must read, not so much for its methodology and statistics but as a stimulus to reflection by both individual pediatricians and our profession on the questions "Why?" and "So what?"

Lying open on my desk is the AMA Code of Medical Ethics. I have read and reread principle VII: "A physician shall recognize a responsibility to participate in activities contributing to the improvement of the community and the betterment of public health."² The greatest privilege of my professional life was spending 20 years delivering pediatric care in the Harriet Lane Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. For me, that experience is a vivid reminder of the responsibility of which principle VII speaks. In the after-clinic hours of particularly discouraging days, I remember thinking often that our . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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