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ROUNDS From Swami’s to medicine Dr. Raimer leads state health panel


Did you get an e-prescribing penalty?


TMA prepares you for ICD-10 in 2014


DSHS to begin SCID screening


Scholarship fund honors late student


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Combating childhood obesity with a multiprong attack


Full text available at www.texmed .org/June12Journal/.


About the cover


Alice Gong, MD, professor of pediatrics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, began thinking about her future in medicine last year while putting together a presentation on aging physicians for the Texas Pediatric Society. She learned many of them don’t plan to retire any time soon but are grappling with concerns about what they’ll do when they do retire.


PHOTO BY BRETT BUCHANAN


14 Not ready to quit


Although they’re at or nearing retirement, many Texas physicians have no plans to stop doing what they love — treating patients. Houston’s Charleta Guillory, MD, speaks for many of her colleagues when she says, “I plan to practice until I can’t physically or mentally practice any- more.” BY CRYSTAL CONDE


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