Commentary: Personal Renewal
AUTOR(ES)
Gardner, John W.
RESUMO
After John Gardner's presentation on “Self-Renewal” to THE WESTERN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE Editors' Meeting, * Joseph Murphy, MD, Special Editor for Wyoming, asked the former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, “Where are you in your life's cycle?” Dr Gardner, who is 80 years old, answered, “When Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, was in his 90s, he was asked a similar question and said, `I'm like a race horse cantering along after the race is over, cooling down.' Well, I'm nowhere near cantering! I'm still in the race, pushing the world.” race, pushing the world.”
