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E. P. Scarlett, MB

Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(4):580-585.

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I have recently been doing a bit of reflecting about the thing that we call leisure. This urge, I suppose, has arisen subconsciously from the memory of the many occasions in medical practice when I advised a patient "to take things easily for a bit," without giving much thought to what I meant by the injunction or without spelling it out in terms of "where" and "how." Or, again, there may have been in my mind the recollection of those interviews when in the course of the daily round I was confronted by the man who had, as they say, "retired" and was visibly suffering from profound boredom and beginning to wither into querulous ill-health. And it is possible that more recently I have been watching with wonder and dismay the increasing torrent of so-called tourism, the week-end carnage on the highways resulting from armies of folk restlessly engaged in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Calgary Associate Clinic Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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