PEDIATRICS Vol. 58 No. 6 December 1976, pp. 790-792
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The American Board of Pediatrics: Reflections on its mission

Robert C. Brownlee Jr. M.D.1

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The American Board of Pediatrics has undergone monumental changes during the 25 to 30 years that I have been in pediatrics. From a small group, almost self-perpetuating, operating out of John and Nora Mitchell's den in suburban Philadelphia, this organization has become a complex force affecting child care the world over.

In the early days, examiners brought their own case materials for use at Board examinations. You may have heard the story of Professor Horton Casparis, then department chairman at Vanderbilt, who brought records of a patient whose X-ray films of the chest resembled tuberculosis. The child was not ill and nobody, including Casparis, ever made a correct diagnosis.