On the other hand, there is a specific set of personal attributes that I maintain all physicians should possess if they are to meet the publicâs expectations, and that it is those attributes that define the essence of what it means to be a physician. First, a physician must be caring.
Douglas Adams; Born 11 March 1952 Cambridge, UK: Died: 11 May 2001 (aged 49) Montecito, California, US: Alma mater
Adams and Jefferson Die on Fourth of July. 1  John Adams, the second president of the United States, and Thomas Jefferson, Adamsâ vice president and successor in office, had worked with each other to draft the Declaration of Independence, published on July 4, 1776. Fifty years to the day, the 90-year-old Adams and 83-year-old Jefferson died just hours apart.