Abstract
Dr E. Grey Dimond's autobiography, from childhood through retirement from academic medicine, is a fascinating and exciting read. Its tenor is one of vaulting ambition combined with exuberant enthusiasm for the good fortune of being a physician and total confidence in the worthiness of his profession. We learn a little about Dimond's childhood in a small Mississippi town, of the tragedy of his alcoholic father, of his early first and unsuccessful marriage, and of his attending Purdue University and the Indiana University Medical School. The author's medical education occurred during World War II via the accelerated Army Specialized Training Program. As early as his first year, he took umbrage at the rigidity of both pre-medical and medical school curricula. He describes a "dreary lectureintensive year... and the required initiation rites of the tedious, macabre, strangely irrelevant dissection of the formaldehyde-soaked cadaver." By contrast, much of his time after the first
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