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Volume 350:2023-2026 May 13, 2004 Number 20 Next

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Because of my extensive training — four years of medical school, three years of pediatric residency, a two-year fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases — and because of my years of experience in practice, I had no trouble at all diagnosing my illness. I knew what was wrong with me, and I knew the technical term for it: I had the pediatric crud. It was winter, and I was seeing sick kids all day long, and now, after a couple of days of congestion and rhinorrhea, a bad cough was developing. It happens every winter, like clockwork.

Now here comes my . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston.

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