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
John Adams died at his home on July 4, 1826, after uttering the words, âThomas Jefferson survives.â Adams was unaware that Jefferson, his greatest political rival and closest friend, had died a few hours earlier. Itâs interesting to note that a third U.S. president also died on July 4. Our fifth president, James Monroe, died on Independence Day in 1831. And 41 years later, Calvin Coolidge became the only future U.S. president to be born on the fourth of July, in 1872. Click here to view some of the correspondence between Jefferson and Adams. And click here to see what else happened on This Day in History.