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Ir\u00e8ne Mathieu <\/span> <\/a>
\nAssistant Professor of Pediatrics
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\nUniversity of Virginia<\/p>\n

While there is a long history of doctor-poets \u2013 one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams<\/a>, was famously also a pediatrician \u2013 few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine. Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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