Scotland was not unique in producing young medical graduates.1,2 To the credit mainly of my teachers in England, I also graduated from medical school 1 month after my 22nd birthday, in June 1943. Six months later I was a medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, eventually bound for northwest Europe and the First Canadian Army. Perhaps my premature delivery into the medical world was not inappropriate, as I eventually became a neonatologist.
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Paul R. Sywer
Neonatologist (ret'd) Toronto, Ont.
References
- 1.Sullivan P. Paras Naik, MD: How Scotland produced Canada's youngest physician. CMAJ 2000;162(6):870.
- 2.Macaulay AC. Youngest medical graduate [letter]. CMAJ 2000;163(5):498.11006759