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Harold W. Horowitz, MD
New York, New York
harold.horowitz@med.nyu.edu

JAMA. 2008;299(5):497-498.

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I remember feeling dumbfounded; perhaps dumb is a better way of putting it. A subintern, soon to be medical school graduate, I often sat in awe listening to Dr H, my medicine attending physician, as he expounded on various topics. One day he might be teaching about the streptococcal M types associated with pharyngitis and their relationship to rheumatic heart disease. The next day, while I was still trying to digest the information from the prior day, he would be lecturing about the interpretation of hepatitis B serology. Dr H seemed to possess knowledge beyond the scope of mortal me. Indeed, I had just subscribed to my first medical periodicals, so that I too could become a walking textbook, or at least become familiar with some of the literature that he and others were citing. Back then, we did not talk too much about "nonmedical" things . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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