Otitis Media in Infants and Children

作者：Jerome O. Klein · 发表于：Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice · 年份：2000 · DOI：10.1097/00019048-200009080-00005 · 被引用次数：380 · 研究领域：Tracheal and airway disorders、Child and Adolescent Health、Respiratory viral infections research

Dr. Klein is Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and Vice Chairman for Academic Affairs of the Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center. He completed his undergraduate studies at Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1952. His career has been notable for fortunate choices and valued role models and mentors. He was admitted to Yale School of Medicine, where he thrived in the Yale system of personal responsibility (absence of examinations). He completed a pediatric internship at the University of Minnesota Hospitals, where he was influenced by the extraordinary presence of Robert Good. Obligatory military service was still in effect in 1957, and the best opportunity for a young physician interested in infectious diseases was to be accepted by Alexander Langmuir into the elite corps of the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Langmuir impressed on “his boys” disciplines of public health and “shoe leather” epidemiology. Dr. Klein was stationed in the New York State Health Department in Albany, where he investigated outbreaks of enteroviral infections, Asian Flu, and antibiotic resistant staphylococcal disease. Although it was Dr. Klein's intent to return to Minneapolis to complete his residency and practice pediatrics, his wife Linda Klein suggested that a year or two in Boston would be a worthwhile family experience. Again, good fortune came his way with a pediatric residency under the most esteemed pediatri...