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Cranial Nerve VIII
Timothy J. Wolter, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1996;5(4):199.
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I HAVE KNOWN many physicians who seem to harbor a genuine nostalgia for their training years. They recall them fondly as challenging but invigorating times, a purifying forge in which new healers were formed and tempered. My own reminiscences are somewhat less heroic. I can recall more than a little sleep deprivation and frustration. But it is a necessary experience, and it must be conceded that we learn things in training that stay with us for the rest of our careers.
I learned something 15 years ago on a brilliant spring day full of promise, which would never be realized by my patient of the moment. He was dying of cancer, and I had been dispatched to draw his blood for a lab test. The results would be of no particular benefit to the patient, but were apparently of mild interest to one of the several physicians charting his downward
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Author Affiliations
Chippewa Falls, Wis
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