AAP News Vol. 14 No. 4 April 1998, p. 22
© 1998 American Academy of Pediatrics
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Lessons of Kentucky childhood shape career: Crain uses simple tenets to advance developmental perspective

Anne Hegland

As a young girl growing up in Kentucky, Lucy Crain, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP, always knew she wanted to be a physician. While playing doctor to her dolls and tagging along on house calls with her father, a surgeon who also practiced general medicine, Dr. Crain's future in medicine was being shaped.

Reflecting on those house calls, Dr. Crain, AAP District IX chairperson and Board of Directors member, believes it was the impressions left after visits to a cerebral palsy patient —a girl about her age at the time — that might have swayed her toward the subspecialty of developmental pediatrics.