First Words
…thoughts of an anachronistic, solo pediatrician
by Glenn Feole, M.D.
"Be careful too that the reading of your story makes the melancholy
laugh and the merry laugh louder," Cervantes, Prologue to Don Quixote
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September 20, 2014 Saturday
Only in Fairfield County, I thought.
Some of the scenarios in my office in Westport were a little different from my days in the Public Health Service in inner city Paterson, N.J. or my subsequent time at migrant health centers in the Carolinas. And yet the underlying feeling is always the same: Mothers and Fathers doting over their children, with all of their innocence and affection.
Some of the scenarios in my office in Westport were a little different from my days in the Public Health Service in inner city Paterson, N.J. or my subsequent time at migrant health centers in the Carolinas. And yet the underlying feeling is always the same: Mothers and Fathers doting over their children, with all of their innocence and affection.
I went into the examining room and found the Mother reading an article to her eight year old son. The glossy page had a colorful picture and seemed to have a lot of interesting facts. What a pleasant picture: a Mother taking the time to educate her son. Just to be together, reading and talking. Idyllic.
I smiled and told them these thoughts and then asked,
“What are you reading?”
She turned the magazine over and the cover said, “Forbes.”
Westport, Connecticut 1990's
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