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'Catalyst for change.'.

P J Kenkel
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Ralph Pollock left medical school just months before he would have earned a degree, but the lure of government development programs in the 1960s was too strong for a practical idealist to resist. Now 51, he's still on the lookout for ways to serve people in the healthcare field.

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P J Kenkel. 1990-10-15. 'Catalyst for change.'.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10160654/

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