Commencement Address Presented at Colby College, Waterville, Maine
- Contributor(s):
- Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013
- Publication:
- Produced: 29 May 1988
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Care Costs Ethics, Medical Health Behavior Spouses Women's Rights
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Speeches
- Abstract:
- In a cycle of six commencement addresses delivered the year before he left office, of which this speech is the first, Koop sought to define his ethical legacy for a new generation of physicians who were entering the medical profession at a time of rising health care costs, managed health care, increasing disparities in access to health care, and AIDS. The physician's relationship with his or her patients and their families, a relationship that Koop himself had learned to cultivate during his thirty-five-year career as a pediatric surgeon, remained for him the key to the success or failure of modern medicine in improving people's health and longevity.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 19 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584930X116 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- QQBBHR
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X116
- Archival Collection:
- The C. Everett Koop Papers (Profiles in Science)