Something to Ponder...

“I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.” ― Janusz Korczak, Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak For any of you interested in Pediatrics, the story of Janusz Korczak is definitely one you should check out. He was a physician who turned down a promising & lucrative career to care for orphaned children. Janusz Korczac ran an orphanage (a very child-friendly and democratic one) in Poland before and during the Holocaust. He was given opportunities to flee the country, but he would not leave his children. When his 200 children were told to walk to a train to take them to Treblinka death camp, he walked with them. They boarded the train and weren't heard from again. His book "How to Love a Child" is one of my favorites, and full of his quotes and insights. Once you're sick of looking at textbooks, you might give it a try :-)