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Professionalism & Ethics Committee Chairs : DebbieBaker ( London ) – LondonBakerLaw & SheltonBridges – BridgesLawGroup , LLC
For me , April 20 started out as an uneventful day . By that evening , I was making arrangements to have open heart surgery . Despite having no symptoms , a nuclear stress test and a subsequent heart catheterization revealed I had multiple blockages that required a quintuple bypass . I had often joked that the stress of being a lawyer
“[ t ] hatoldseptemberfeeling , leftoverfromschooldays , ofsummerpassing , vacation nearlydone , obligations gathering , booksandfootball intheair ... anotherfall , anotherturnedpage : therewas somethingofjubileeinthat annualautumnalbeginning , asiflastyear ’ smistakeshadbeen wipedcleanbysummer .” — wallacestegner , “ angleofrepose ”
would kill me one day . Little did I know that my journey to “ the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns ” could have happened at age 49 .
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