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When Your Mother Is a Doctor

For Dawna LaVina, 3 MD

LaVina Jean Armstrong

Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(7):570.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

When your mother is a doctor, she can heal your hurts with medicine or a magic kiss.

When your mother is a doctor, she uses big words like lacerations to describe small things like the cuts on your knees.

When your mother is a doctor, she can deliver babies without a delivery truck.

When your mother is a doctor, she can't always be home for dinner... and your father cooks pancakes?

When your mother is a doctor, a trip to the hospital does not scare you.

When your mother is a doctor, you always have a costume in the house.

When your mother is a doctor, she can bring home slimy specimens in a jar for you to take to school.

When your mother is a doctor, you aren't the only person who calls her to fix problems.

When your mother is a doctor, it is very difficult to pretend . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]


Author Affiliations



Bloomington, Ill

Correspondence to 608 E Jackson, Bloomington, IL 61701 (Ms Armstrong).






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