Legacies
Physicians are privileged to be able to provide care. Few events in life are more gratifying than diagnosing and successfully treating a patient. But I think that I have discovered something that does compare favorably to delivering patient care. Watching my 2-year-old grandson hold and “read” Eleanor and Geraldine is a very special sensation. And I hope one day he has children and grandchildren who will read it as well.
James (Jim) Rosenbaum, MD, MACR, trained in rheumatology/immunology under Hugh McDevitt at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. Rosenbaum began his faculty career at the University of California, San Francisco, and subsequently devoted 37 years studying ocular inflammatory diseases while teaching, researching and offering patient care at Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, most as chair of the Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases, which had been created by his father.
