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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

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I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.

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Each day of those early years in pediatric surgery I felt I was on the cutting edge. Some of the surgical problems that landed on the operating table at Children's had not even been named. Many of the operations I performed had never been done before. It was an exuberant feeling, but also a little scary. At times I was troubled by fears that I wasn't doing things the right way, that I would have regrets, or that someone else had performed a certain procedure successfully but had never bothered to write it up for the medical journals, or if they had I couldn't find it.

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A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

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C. Everett Koop

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Born: October 14, 1916
Died: February 25, 2013 (aged 96)
Bio: Charles Everett Koop was an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator.
Known for:
  1. Whatever happened to the human race? (1979)
  2. Sometimes mountains move (1979)
  3. Heidi Redux (2004)
  4. The right to live, the right to die (1976)
  5. Visible & palpable lesions in children (1976)

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