%0 Journal Article
%T The Cauldron of Life Experiences that Creates the Geriatrician: a Personal Perspective
%A Michael Gordon
%J Archive of "Canadian Geriatrics Journal".
%D 2017
%R 10.5770/cgj.20.294
%X None of us are born to be physicians, although some parents claim that ever since their child was a toddler they seemed drawn to medicine. Maybe they played ˇ°doctorˇ± or saw a parent who was a doctor at work, or maybe they watched television shows in which a doctor was the ˇ°hero.ˇ± For most of us though, it is a combination of happenstance, external influences, and internal drive, that results in the choice of medicine as a career and in our choice of specialty
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5740951/