physician | physician
Jan.30.2013
Dr. Ferrol Sams (Sambo to friends and family) died yesterday at age 90. He was my doctor from age 6, when my parents rushed me to his office in Fayetteville, Georgia after I fell and hit my head on a door hinge, until he retired. I remember being fascinated by his old office. The entryway was a...
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Nov.14.2012
A book recommendation: Letters to My Daughter in 1957 by Edith Summerskill
One of the most notable example of a successful feminist in 1950s Britain, whose career was also her vocation, was Edith Summerskill (1901-1980), an Oxford graduate, physician, Member of Parliament, and a Minister of...
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Nov.25.2009
I've known parent-child relationship. I've sated on the love of a man for a woman. I've experienced the regard of a mentor for a student. Rarest of all is the physician-patient communion. With a true healer, the unity goes beyond the mere verbal, even beyond touch. It is nearest to...
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Oct.09.2009
A doctor, a medical doctor, and there I stood, powerless to help my daughter, two, turning three, flailing her arms, and then grabbing me, my daughter, perhaps, however inconceivably, about to die. A moment before, we were sitting, my wife and I, enjoying our evening meal, our two young...
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