Still Going Strong After 60 Years in Practice
In 1947, a gallon of gas cost 15 cents.
The Dodgers were still in Brooklyn, playing the Yankees in the first televised World Series.
President Harry Truman became the first president to address the nation on TV.
And Eugene Cutuly, MD, began practicing medicine.
Sixty years later, 30 years after he could have retired, Dr. Cutuly still sees a few patients—more friends than clients—in his general practice in Clairton outside Pittsburgh.
“I love it. I feel delighted when I’ve done something helpful for patients,” Dr. Cutuly says.
For those six decades, Dr. Cutuly has been a member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society as well.
He says the Society has been an invaluable resource, becoming more helpful as the practice of medicine has become more complicated.
He remembers when medicine was simpler, before physicians were overwhelmed by too many patients, too many regulations, and too little time.
“While we have gained tremendously in technical advantages, I think we have suffered a loss in personal touch,” he says.
The key to a long, successful career, he says, is to make sure that personal touch, that patient connection, stays intact.
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Last Updated: 11/20/2008