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...From a professional point of view, the most interesting thing that has happened to me is my metamorphosis from pressure law practice to almost total immersion in the problems of the medical profession...
"In late 1950 I succumbed to the blandishments of another profession, and, after a bit of struggle, deserted the pure practice of law and my partners (who, incidentally, still think I am crazy) to go to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester Minn, as one of its administrative officers.
"For the second time in my life I have made a fundamental change in activity. Although the work [of a Federal Judge] at times has elements of drudgery, tedium, and loneliness, it does have significant compensations. The cases are clear and substantial. One is brought back to the research and...
From the start, Calvert, 49, knew he was dealing with a generation "more sophisticated and better educated" than any before it. And more skeptical: Viet Nam had done little for the image of the military profession, and the Navy was still under the cloud of the Pueblo affair. At Annapolis...
Like most lawyers, John Horty hates the drudgery of legal research. Several years ago, while preparing a manual on laws governing hospitals in all 50 states, he and six other lawyers had to peruse more than 26,000 law tomes. The job took almost three years, and Horty recalls: "I...