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FIRST PERSON LIVING HISTORY 24 EMORY HEALTH By Sylvia Wrobel • Photos courtesy of the Health Sciences Library archives The Greatest Generation shares war memories with Emory doctors at the Atlanta VA Medical Center.
Five years ago, Emory geriatrician Wilson Holland began read- ing Tom Brokaw’s book, The Greatest Generation, the story of those who grew up in the Great Depression and then fought in World War II. He found it hard to put down. He knew these people. As a doctor in the Atlanta VA Medical Center’s Bronze Outpatient Geriatric Clinic (for patients 75 and older), he had worked with thousands of men and women like those Brokaw described. He knew their health problems. He knew the way they stolidly bore up under the aches and limitations of aging or illness, and he knew the spouses, sons, and daughters who brought them to the clinic from throughout north Georgia. But what he didn’t know, what hadn’t seemed appropriate to ask in the busy clinical setting, were their experiences during WWII. Wilson Holland was selected as national winner of the 2010 Mark Wolcott Award given annually for Excellence in Clinical Care Delivery by the Veterans Health Administration. Winter 2011 25
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FIRST PERSON LIVING HISTORY<br />
24<br />
EMORY HEALTH<br />
By Sylvia Wrobel • Pho<strong>to</strong>s courtesy of<br />
the <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> Library archives<br />
The Greatest Generation shares<br />
war memories with <strong>Emory</strong> doc<strong>to</strong>rs<br />
at the Atlanta VA Medical <strong>Center</strong>.
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