Word: ephebiatrician
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...teen-ager finds himself medically a displaced person. His parents often brush off his vague complaints as "growing pains." Many doctors view adolescents, who have the lowest mortality rate from illness of any group, as uninteresting cases. When adolescents fall ill because danger signals have been ignored, says Ephebiatrician Roth, "they feel too old for the pediatrician and too young for the internist...
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