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As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
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Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
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Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.
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I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
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I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.
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