{"id":3016,"date":"2019-03-10T13:50:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T21:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2019-03-10T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T21:50:22","slug":"a-decision-to-become-a-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=3016","title":{"rendered":"A Decision to Become a Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was seven years old, Dr. Dixon operated on me at the Mayo Clinic, leaving me with a colostomy for a year. I went back a year later and he closed it. He wrote articles such as this shortly afterwards:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S003961091632480X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surgical Clinics of North America; Volume 28, Issue 4, August 1948, Pages 889-902<\/a>: In a Symposium On Surgical Physiology, The Surgical Treatment of Congenital Megacolon* Author links open overlay panel Claude F.Dixon &amp; David B. Judd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Dixon wrote articles such as this about that same time&#8211;it might have been about me!<\/p>\n<p>That was the turning point! I had always wanted to be a doctor and help kids, but these experiences plus the museum there plus the positive attention, etc., fixed this ambition in my mind! And though I became a psychiatrist because I thought I was clumsy, it all started me on my life trajectory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was seven years old, Dr. Dixon operated on me at the Mayo Clinic, leaving me with a colostomy for a year. I went back a year later and he closed it. He wrote articles such as this shortly afterwards: Surgical Clinics of North America; Volume 28, Issue 4, August 1948, Pages 889-902: In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}