LETTER
Adult (Not Internal) Medicine
David Sokol, MD
1 June 1998 | Volume 128 Issue 11 | Pages 957-958
TO THE EDITOR:
When I came across the term adultist in Dr. Goldman's recent editorial [1], I could not help but think that it sounded awfully close to adulterer. In these times of increasing difficulty in maintaining loyalty to our profession and patients, I think that internists should avoid any association, intentional or otherwise, with infidelity. I guess that means that a commercial sponsor for a symposium to rename internal medicine at the next American College of Physician meeting is out. In any case, I sincerely believe that we and our patients are better off if we continue to define internal medicine by adding to our knowledge of the field rather than renaming it. Although the content of my recent edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine is certainly different from that of my father's copy, the name remains the same. Fortunately, we need to look no further than Dr. Goldman himself for a role model in defining internal medicine this way.
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The Medical Center at Princeton; Princeton, NJ 08540
1. Goldman L. Adult (not internal) medicine [Editorial]. Ann Intern Med. 1997; 127:835-6.
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