Adrienne Ramsey-Harris is the chosen nom-de-plume of Norvelle A. Harris, a still-practicing female physician who is now in her eighty-first year of life. Those years have been filled with the characteristic measure of triumphs and tragedies that are to be found in all human life. Twice engaged to be married, I was twice bereft by my fiance's premature and unexpected demise. Medical school in the early to mid-1950's was, for a female student, its own particular form of baptism by fire. Internship and Residency thereafter were challenging, grueling but amazingly informative. AS a practicing path...