Gepubliceerd in:
01-01-2007 | Festschrift Essay
An Academic Journey
Auteur:
Daniel Offer
Gepubliceerd in:
Journal of Youth and Adolescence
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Uitgave 1/2007
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Excerpt
Although I am seventy-six years old and long past adolescence, words my beloved grandfather spoke to me when I was a teenager still resound in my mind: “Tommy (my childhood name),” he said, “now that I finally know something about pediatrics, I must leave.” Ludwig Ferdinand Meyer, M.D., indeed knew something about pediatrics—as a young researcher in Berlin, Germany, he had discovered the role of potassium in infant diarrhea, thus radically improving every child’s chances of surviving infancy. …