TY  - JOUR
T1  - COnsidering life before lifestyle
AU  - Blumberg JM
Y1  - 2012/05/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.4522
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2159
EP  - 2160
VL  - 307
IS  - 20
N2  - 
My dad has happily practiced general pediatrics for the past 35 years, but according to my grandmother this was not his intended career path—he was supposed to become a surgeon. Nana, as we called her, told me that my father failed the “steady-hands test” when he began medical school in 1970, and so he could not pursue a surgical specialty. She explained it vividly, and it really must have been terrifying: you had to place your hands in front of your body, fingers stretched taut, in front of a panel of robed, white-haired, pipe-smoking, surgical professors—one quiver, you're finished.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.4522
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.4522
ER  -