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On Being a Doctor |15 October 1993

Motke

Joseph Herman, MD

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  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Requests for Reprints: Joseph Herman, MD, 42 Harav Uzziel Street, Bayit V'gan 96424, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Most of us have at least one candidate for my most unforgettable patient; the more fortunate may even have several. Mine is Motke and I am not sure if it would have been any easier to forget him had I not been his doctor. He was one of those people who embody a whole way of being; he stood over and against the materialistic, communal idealism of those among whom he lived. There was an air of saintliness about him but he would have laughed at the description, for he was an agnostic. He walked with a limp from childhood polio. The defect made him unfit for the occupations involving sword or ploughshare through which men established themselves as useful members of kibbutz society.
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Herman J. Motke. Ann Intern Med. 1993;119:851–852. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-119-8-199310150-00012

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1993;119(8):851-852.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-119-8-199310150-00012

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