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PHYSICIAN
RETIREMENT
Life Segmented
Did I do something useful?
By John Seidenfeld, MD and Adam Ratner, MD
If I am not for myself, who will be?
If I am for myself alone, what am I?
If not now, when? *
Seidenfeld:
Life is usually lived in phases and today in pods. Transitions but fitting summary.
from privileged birth, to child living in a peaceful land, to camper in Another way to view this life is that seen from a pod of
a faraway remote location, to public school student, to medicine. Here the molt was from medical student, to intern, to resi-
athlete, to awkward boyfriend, to college student distant from home, dent in internal medicine, to fellow in pulmonary medicine, to faculty
to trainee in a lifelong profession, to Army service, to husband, to fa- researcher and teacher, to mentor, to clinician, to administrator, to
ther, to grandfather, and to remembered soul seems a condensed medical director, to clinician, and to faculty member.
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