Original Article

Origins of the Compleat Physician: Caricature or Reality?

Authors: John F. Fisher, MD, FACP

Abstract

Fellow faculty, parents, guests, and young colleagues: I am greatly honored to have been invited to be the guest speaker on the occasion of your initiation into our special fraternity. In case it crossed your mind, our president has very properly vetoed any semblance of hazing for admission to this fraternity, and you will not be asked as part of the ceremony to swallow a live crawdad as sophomores have been lobbying for, spend the night on a slab in the gross anatomy lab, or sing Vesti la Giuba in karaoke, which the faculty thought would be entertaining.

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