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Consultant Neurologist, Lions Gate Hospital, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Correspondence to: 145 East 13th Street, #204, North Vancouver, BC V7L 2L4, Canada; john.stewart@telus.net

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Forsaking a personal chair in an internationally renowned university and medical school to become a "community neurologist" attached to a non-teaching hospital in a far off city: an epiphany, or an act of frank foolishness? After 27 years of being embedded in a medical school, and at the age of 60, I made the move. After all, a change is as good as a rest, goes the old proverb.

In writing such an article as this, one runs the risk of creating a whining critique of all that is maddening about universities and faculties of medicine. Instead I will try to compare my two very different medical careers. Let’s start with the present: the Lions Gate Hospital is in North Vancouver which lies between the sea and the dramatic Coastal Mountain range. It is certainly one of the loveliest areas in which to live and work in Canada. The hospital . . . [Full text of this article]

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