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Published on Thursday, May 08, 2008
By Dennis McCarthy
How's this for a nice walk down memory lane?
"I think it's a shame the way the telephone is answered by an exchange today, and they tell you if your child is sick take them to an emergency room.
"That's absolutely against my principles. If a child was sick, I was going to see him."
Ah, Dr. Eugene Gettelman. I wish you could give us another 100 years.
This remarkable physician - one of the Valley's first pediatricians - turned a century this week in style, reminiscing about the good old days at a special birthday party thrown for him at Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center, his second home for more than 50 years.
He still makes rounds every Friday morning over at UCLA Medical Center and, until recently, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center every Thursday.
"You worked day and night," Gettelman said. "I would frequently end up in my office until 6 or 7 o'clock, rush home to have a bite with the family and then go out and make the house calls I had to make
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