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None of the hectic activities of Senior year-neurology and pediatrics, practical work in obstetrics, taking of case-histories in the hospitals, attendance on operations, dressing wounds, learning not to look embarrassed when charity patients called one "Doctor"-was quite so important as the discussion of "What shall we do after graduation?"
Is it necessary to be an intern for more than a year? Shall we remain general practitioners all our lives, or work toward becoming specialists? Which specialties are the best-that is, the best paid? Shall we settle in the country or in the city? How about going West? What about the army medical corps; salutes, riding boots, pretty women, travel?