Commencement Address Presented at Colby College, Waterville, Maine
- Title:
- Commencement Address Presented at Colby College, Waterville, Maine
- Creator:
- Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013
- Date:
- 29 May 1988
- Description:
- In a cycle of six commencement addresses delivered the year before he left office, of which this speech is the first, Koop sought to define his ethical legacy for a new generation of physicians who were entering the medical profession at a time of rising health care costs, managed health care, increasing disparities in access to health care, and AIDS. The physician's relationship with his or her patients and their families, a relationship that Koop himself had learned to cultivate during his thirty-five-year career as a pediatric surgeon, remained for him the key to the success or failure of modern medicine in improving people's health and longevity.
- Location:
- Box: 106. Folder: 87
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Genre:
- Speeches
- Subject:
- Health Care Costs, Ethics, Medical, Health Behavior, Spouses, and Women's Rights
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 19 pages
- Language:
- English
- Legacy ID:
- QQBBHR
- NLM ID:
- 101584930X116
- Profiles Collection:
- The C. Everett Koop Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X116
- Story Section:
- Biographical Information