2008 Volume 54 Issue 2 Pages 152-157
This paper reflects on the couse I have followed for thirty-nine years at Juntendo University. During that time, I participated in three themes, first: digestive surgery and digestive endoscopy, especially, developing new endoscopes and then improving these items and developing a new diagnostic procedure (brushing cytodiagnosis of pancreatic cancer); second: medical insurance; third: general medical treatment and diagnosis in the department of general medicine, in this department, I encountered and treated many diseases.