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Streams of Consciousness Volume 1 Issue 1 Article 3 2017-12 Brief Advice to a Young Doctor Hugh Silk MD University of Massachusetts Medical School Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Follow this and additional works at: https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/soc  Part of the Digital Humanities Commons, Medical Humanities Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Silk H. Brief Advice to a Young Doctor. Streams of Consciousness 2017; 1(1):1002. https://doi.org/10.7191/soc.2017.1002. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/soc/vol1/iss1/3 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This material is brought to you by eScholarship@UMMS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Streams of Consciousness by an authorized administrator of eScholarship@UMMS. For more information, please contact Lisa.Palmer@umassmed.edu. Brief Advice to a Young Doctor Hugh Silk, MD  Eat dinner At home Most nights With your family  Sleep soundly Without regret As much as you can In your own bed  Be active Often As an example And just for you  Eat well Fresh and local Not too much Slowly  Make love Passionately Without distraction To your partner of many years  Play with your children On the ground Without distraction With much laughter  Read books Without indexes About humanity To learn, for fun 1 1Silk: Brief Advice to a Young DoctorPublished by eScholarship@UMMS, 2017 Be there for your patients As much as you can Without distraction Sincerely, honestly.  2 2Streams of Consciousness, Vol. 1, Iss. 1 [2017], Art. 3https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/soc/vol1/iss1/3DOI: 10.7191/soc.2017.1002

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