Edith Potter, MD, PhD: pioneering infant pathology
1982; American Medical Association; Volume: 248; Issue: 13 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1001/jama.1982.03330130011004
ISSN1538-3598
Autores Tópico(s)Child and Adolescent Health
ResumoFinding Edith Potter, MD, PhD, the "mother of perinatal pathology," is not easy. You board a tenpassenger propeller-driven plane at the Tampa—St Petersburg airport, fly to Fort Myers, then drive past motels, fast-food chains, factory outlets, and supermarkets. Finally, a sharp left and a quick right, and "Palm Pointe Gardens" reads a bronze plaque on two stone posts guarding a hidden road. Suddenly you're in a tropical paradise. Bronze and terra-cotta figures, Narcissus-like, watch their reflections in a freshwater spring, or gaze out at a meandering estuary of the Gulf of Mexico. Following the narrow dirt road, heavy with vegetation, you park by a glass-roofed orchid house. Can this unlikely place be Potter's abode? Yes, there she is, waving from the steps of her stucco house built for "retirement" in 1967. Wearing a blue denim sundress almost the color of her slate-blue eyes (analytic behind blue-rimmed glasses), she shows you
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