PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Winter, William D.
TI  - Letters to the Editor
DP  - 1982 May 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - 671--671
VI  - 69
IP  - 5
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/69/5/671.2.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/69/5/671.2.full
SO  - Pediatrics1982 May 01; 69
AB  - Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr, has written of the pediatrician's self-image and sense of "worth" (Pediatrics 68:734, 1981). I quite agree with his sense that we should not feel that we are small doctors because we treat small patients. And I quite agree that the newly graduated resident should not allow his special skills to fade in deference to those of other specialists. But when his emphasis on the "worth" of a pediatrician focuses ultimately on the monetary, I take issue: