TY - JOUR T1 - PAthology for the physician. AU - Bean WB Y1 - 1959/06/01 N1 - 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270060154022 JO - A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 1002 EP - 1002 VL - 103 IS - 6 N2 - Edited by William B. Bean, M.D.*Minor incidents, events, and episodes plant the seeds for later developments which furnish direction, pleasure, and instruction in a medical career. In 1931, during the summer after my first year in medical school, my father put in my hands a book called "The Pathology of Internal Disease," by William Boyd. He said that it had pleased him greatly. Ergo, I should read it. This injunction was obeyed for I had come, perhaps reluctantly, to admire my father's canny judgment. Perhaps today I should say we shared certain tastes. At any rate, having wrestled with the massive tomes of anatomy, histology, and embryology, I was pleased to have a chance to preview what I looked forward to as an introduction to the more clinical aspects of medicine, even if it was only the residue found in pathology. To my great delight, I found Boyd's book SN - 0888-2479 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270060154022 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270060154022 ER -