The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2009;91:2511-2519.
doi:10.2106/JBJS.I.00954
© 2009 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.
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Mentoring: Our Obligation ... Our Heritage*

Vincent D. Pellegrini, Jr., MD1

1 Department of Orthopaedics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene Street, Suite S11B, Baltimore, MD 21201. E-mail address: vpellegrini@umoa.umm.edu

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   Introduction
 
President Bigliani, fellow members of the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA), Carousel Presidents and spouses, and invited guests:

I feel compelled to offer an immediate confession. Never before have I thought so long and so deliberately about anything I was going to say in my entire life. It has been twenty-five years since I first presented a paper to this organization in 1984, and, through that most auspicious association with this group, I am conscious, nearly to the point of complete distraction, of two things as I stand here this morning. I am absolutely humbled by the notion of serving as president of this esteemed organization, and I am acutely aware that you will more likely remember what we have for lunch today than anything of what I say in the next several minutes.

Prefacing an address titled as this one is, I am reminded that none of us accomplishes anything . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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