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