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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.

C. Everett Koop

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.

C. Everett Koop

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.

C. Everett Koop

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

C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop

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:

Whatever happened to the human race? (1979)
Sometimes mountains move (1979)
Heidi Redux (2004)
The right to live, the right to die (1976)
Visible & palpable lesions in children (1976)

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