My fellow Celts, the Scots, have in the past laid claim to the invention of 2 well-known Irish contributions to the human condition, whiskey and the bagpipes. To be fair, we Irish did produce the latter as a joke. To the Scots must go credit for learning how to play the thing. But now the Caledonians lay claim to being the source of Canada's youngest physician.1 My graduation from Queen's University of Belfast in 1964 also occurred at the tender age of 22.
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Patrick Taylor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology St. Paul's Hospital Vancouver, BC
Reference
- 1.Sullivan P. Paras Naik, MD: how Scotland produced Canada's youngest physician. CMAJ 2000;162(6):870.