Ways of Seeing: Like the doctor prescribes, ‘Just Say Yes’

Ways of Seeing: Like the doctor prescribes, ‘Just Say Yes’

“Just Say Yes” was the message left by my dear friend Paula Duncan, who passed away a few years back. Paula was a pediatrician who loved working with adolescents, loved it so much that the negative final evaluation written by one of her medical students was, “Dr. Duncan smiles entirely too often when she talks about teenagers.”  CHERYL MITCHELL Paula credited a young patient with changing the course of her medical career. At the end of a routine…