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Dwindling Community Involvement

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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