Pushing Back Against Ageism

It was a time not unlike the present, although more than half a century has passed. The year was 1969, my first year of medical school in Philadelphia. Many of us had long hair back then and wore black armbands over our white coat sleeves to protest the war raging in Vietnam. Richard Nixon had been president since January, his election over Hubert Humphrey enabled by the chaos and violence in the streets of Chicago at the Democratic National Convention. Many American cities remained in turmoil after the civil unrest that followed the assassination of Dr.
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