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My fifth year of training in Dr. Warfield T. Longcope’s medical residency program at Johns Hopkins was spent as a traveling fellow at Harvard, working as a graduate assistant in medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Many years later, I learned that this was made possible by a gift from my mother’s first cousin, Dr. Walter A. Baetjer, with whom I later entered practice in Baltimore.
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Klinefelter, H.F. (1984). Background, Recognition and Description of the Syndrome. In: Bandmann, HJ., Breit, R., Perwein, E. (eds) Klinefelter’s Syndrome. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69644-2_1
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