" A longtime physician looks back at life, practice, and the "ART" of good doctoring!"

“When the third and forth years of my medical school program began, I was grateful to have the first two grueling years of basic science behind me. I readily admit that the memorization and regurgitation of basic science information was neither my first love nor my forte.

During my third-year clinical rotations, I began to recognize that my gift, instead, was being able to deal comfortably with patients and to put them at ease. The personal interchange during the taking of patients' medical and social histories, followed by the laying on of hands in the physical examination, is a unique talent not necessarily bestowed on those students with the greatest academic ability.

It was during those next few years that I began to understand that to be a complete physician, it was necessary for the art of medicine to encompass a merging of both principle and practice. ..."

    Fred Hahn, M.D.

Published by Leathers Publishing, ISBN 1-58597-349-9

Copyright © 2005 by Fredrick W. Hahn, Jr.

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