DJP Update 9-20-2013 Thanks to Tulane Medical Alumni Assn (TMAA): DJP Outstanding Medical Alumnus 2013
Honored and humbled to be selected by Tulane Medical Alumni Association (TMAA) as Outstanding Medical Alumnus 2013. The award will be given October 4.
Great appreciation to TMAA Board for selecting me and to the many outstanding medical mentors I have had during medical school, residency, and throughout my medical career. They taught me and inspired me.
No doubt those mentors deserve this high honor more than I do.
And special thanks to family and friends who encouraged and helped me throughout my career in medicine. We all know the sacrifices they make as we strive to help patients 24 hours a day. I also reflect on a turning point in my life that many of you have heard me relate in speeches and in my leadership books. That event was my decision to quit Tulane Medical School after the first anatomy test in the first semester. I told my heroic policeman Dad that I did not think I was smart enough to be a doctor. This was his immediate response:
“Son, you are smart enough to be a doctor, but you must remember 3 things: Do your homework, have courage, and don’t give up! Do that and very little in life is impossible.” I followed his advice, stayed in school, and that has made all the difference to me. If only all kids who suffer hard times, sometimes without one or both parents, had such a loving mentor. What a different world we would see.
Here is the link re 2013 award:
http://tmaa.tulane.edu/newsletters/2013sept/classnotes.html
Previous recipients include Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, pioneering cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. George E. Burch, internationally renowned cardiologist, Dr. Charles B. Wilson, famous neurosurgeon, Dr. John L. Ochsner, acclaimed heart surgeon, Dr. Gerald S. Berenson of the famous Bogalusa Heart Study, etc. See link below for more.
http://tmaa.tulane.edu/spotlight_past.html
LAGNIAPPE: Starting a new book, this time a suspense thriller. Stay tuned!
Stay well. Looking forward to seeing most of you at Interim Meeting of AMA. No doubt there will be great followup discussions on the trials and tribulations of PPACA!
Donald
Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD, FACS
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