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Albert W. Pruitt, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1989;143(5):534.

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Many of us, now 20 years or so out of residency, are at about the midpoint of the most active phase of our careers as pediatricians. Recognition of that fact prompts reflection—reflection about what set us on our course, reflection about the springs from which our lives as professionals have flowed. Such reflection can only prompt in us a profound sense of gratitude, and, of course, all real gratefulness calls us to examine our own giving.

We owe most obvious debts to our patients and to our teachers. Especially during those early years oflearning, patients gave us a gift that must be reverenced. Perhaps the term patients was particularly merited by those with whom we began. We all remember the gentleman who, three times a week, would kindly give his medical history to a small group ofawestruck sophomore students, and then allow them, one by one, to palpate his abdomen. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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