TY  - JOUR
T1  - THank you robin and richard
AU  - Pruitt AW
Y1  - 1989/05/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150170032014
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 534
EP  - 534
VL  - 143
IS  - 5
N2  - 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.
SN  - 0002-922X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150170032014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150170032014
ER  -