Abstract

MANY physicians have carved out distinguished careers in other fields than medicine after having acquired their basic medical training. It remains for a very few persons to enter medicine after major success in another profession. Yet Albert Schweitzer did this, not after success in one activity, but after he had earned doctorates and world-wide reputations in three quite dissimilar fields — philosophy, theology and music. He began his medical studies in 1905 at the age of thirty, pursued them under conditions that would have moved most medical students to give up in despair, and went on to establish a hospital . . .

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