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The first item on this program is an overstatement. I am not qualified to give an address. I have been so long immured in a laboratory that I cannot undertake to offer a survey of that wide section of medicine which is called pediatrics, nor can I attempt to predict even its proximal future. I am mortified that this is the case, because, even to me, it is evident that in these crucial times the organization of pediatrics in all of its features urgently needs examination. However, it is not possible to pass through twenty-three years of membership in this society without having some thoughts about pediatrics beyond the buret. So I shall offer a few informal reflections.One of these is that pediatricians should be alertly aware of pediatrics' debt to the community. Pediatrics has been given a generous acceptance. Parents who would never think of periodic medical examination |
