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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 78:1138-9 (1996)
© 1996 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Mentor, Peer, and Protégé*

THOMAS G. GRACE, M.D.{dagger}, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

*Excerpts from the President's Address. Read at the Annual Meeting of the Western Orthopaedic Association, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 17, 1995.


   Introduction
 
I am honored to have the opportunity to discuss the special relationship between mentor, peer, and protégé—teacher, coworker, and student—which is as old as life itself but is unique in the profession of medicine and in the field of orthopaedic surgery.

At this time of monumental, fundamental, and draconian change in both the health-care industry and society itself, many of us are re-examining and questioning why we went into medicine in the first place. The Oath of Hippocrates personifies to me all that I feel is special and unique to the profession of medicine. Like many of you, I took the oath at graduation from medical school. A few of us consider the oath to be a covenant, a literal contractual obligation. Like most, I consider it to be a guideline for what our daily professional lives and our practice should be. It should be our creed and our goal. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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