PhT!

A fun and lighthearted moment at the medical school graduation is the giving of a special degree to the parents and spouses of the new doctors.  Her first signature with the M.D. behind it was on a certificate that confers to her parents a Ph.T. degree... "Putting her Through"...

We shall frame it and hang it proudly!

It reads:

The School of Medicine certifies that Dawn and Thomas


having successfully persevered for many months


despite the necessity of encouraging and supporting a daughter


the endless unintelligible conversations of professional jargon,


the excuses, the blame placed on the


imaginary injustice of the professors,


the long hours of all night call, the periodic anxiety of waiting for grades,


and the multiplicity of general hardships


which become the lot of a student's parent


is hereby awarded this degree of


Ph.T.