Abstract
In the hope that 35 years as a medical educator and practitioner justifies some privilege in pontificating, I offer the following thoughts. I would hesitate to do so if I thought that the interviews contained in this book did not warrant them. My trepidation is not diminished, however, when I think about the anecdote of the eight-year-old who, when asked who Socrates was, responded, “He was an old man who went around giving advice to everybody. They poisoned him.”
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Cohen, R.L. (1988). Some Words of Advice. In: House Officer. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9525-0_22
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