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Mediatrics: or the Proper Care of the Middle-Aged
Do you know of a single Home for the Middle-Aged? No? The simple truth is that we suffer from a mistaken over-emphasis on Pediatrics and Geriatrics. The Middle-Aged bear the main responsibility for the present. It is they, for instance, who run rock and roll clubs for the young and carry soup to the old. They demand, and deserve, special treatment.
86 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1961
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December 21, 2014
The Young and the Old get all of the attention with their pediatrics and geriatrics. It is time for people to care for those of us in the middle who make the world possible for the young and the old. ^_^ HF Ellis proposes the notion of mediatrics.
Witty take on the middle aging process broken into early middle, middle middle and late middle. B/c it was written in 1961 and is British, it is focused on men but funny nonetheless. My fav sign of early middle age involves "tendency to ask to see the manager when annoyed in restaurants and shops."
Witty take on the middle aging process broken into early middle, middle middle and late middle. B/c it was written in 1961 and is British, it is focused on men but funny nonetheless. My fav sign of early middle age involves "tendency to ask to see the manager when annoyed in restaurants and shops."
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