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Jeanne Parr Lemkau, PhD
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(11):920-921.
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I REMEMBER being 4 years old and in a gathering at my grandmother's house. I was standing next to my mother with my left hand raised and in hers. Another woman casually asked her what I thought about the fact that I would soon be leaving the country with my family. My mother laughed warmly and said, "Jeannie thinks that leaving the country is the same thing as going out in the country!" They both laughed. My face flushed as I felt the shame, in a family of academics and Scrabble players, of having been found intellectually wanting. Even this, my earliest memory, was of the possibilities and limitations of the intellect.
So when I was given a copy of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, I felt very much at home. It appeared in my office one day, the gift of a resident who had just received a spanking new
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Author Affiliations
Wright State University School of Medicine Dayton, Ohio
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