Indirect route to medicine proved an inspiring journey
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A medical student may profit from a year spent in the field between college and medical school. Positive benefits can result from the experience of assisting patients in poverty-stricken areas like Central America. Contact with children dying of preventable diseases such as cholera may inspire a previously jaded student to enthusiasm for the study of medicine. The value of a national health care system is demonstrated by the differences between conditions in Guatemala and Costa Rica.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1992
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Literary portraits of the family physician
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The family physician has been portrayed in various forms in American and world literature. Most of the portrayals show that the family physician has a positive influence on those they serve. Literary family doctors are often depicted as devoted men with an insatiable fascination for medicine and knowledge. On the other hand, fictional family physicians are depicted as competent, compassionate and with immense advocacy, creativity and intuition.
Publication Name: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0031-5982
Year: 1992
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Inspiring lives, preserved in dusty patient records
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The stories of three patients whose strength during their last days deeply touched their physician are presented. A young mother who succumbed to leukemia, a 16-year-old boy who died of lymphoma and a young man stricken with biliary carcinoma all provided inspiration by their courage. Their stories are tied together by the image of the physician's dusty shelf of records, which he maintains as a memorial of their lives.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1992
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