{"title":"Law's Praxis-On Becoming Self-Actualized.","authors":"Timothy Nicholas Patselas","doi":"10.1177/00031348261457570","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 12<sup>th</sup> Invited Henry L. Laws lecture on Medical Education presented at the 94<sup>th</sup> Southeastern Surgical Congress Meeting on February 22, 2026 entitled Law's Praxis-On Becoming Self-Actualized by Dr Timothy N. Patselas addresses how personal and professional qualities of Dr Laws can serve as guideposts to become fuller versions of ourselves. Examples of Dr Laws exceptional attributes are highlighted, followed by correlates from the author's personal and professional experience. Special attention is given to the author's journey with multiple sclerosis, and the impact chronic illness has made on his self-growth. Lastly, the author provides words of encouragement, resilience and hope in both the personal and professional domains.</p>","PeriodicalId":7782,"journal":{"name":"American Surgeon","volume":" ","pages":"2495-2500"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Surgeon","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00031348261457570","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/6/3 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"SURGERY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The 12th Invited Henry L. Laws lecture on Medical Education presented at the 94th Southeastern Surgical Congress Meeting on February 22, 2026 entitled Law's Praxis-On Becoming Self-Actualized by Dr Timothy N. Patselas addresses how personal and professional qualities of Dr Laws can serve as guideposts to become fuller versions of ourselves. Examples of Dr Laws exceptional attributes are highlighted, followed by correlates from the author's personal and professional experience. Special attention is given to the author's journey with multiple sclerosis, and the impact chronic illness has made on his self-growth. Lastly, the author provides words of encouragement, resilience and hope in both the personal and professional domains.
期刊介绍:
The American Surgeon is a monthly peer-reviewed publication published by the Southeastern Surgical Congress. Its area of concentration is clinical general surgery, as defined by the content areas of the American Board of Surgery: alimentary tract (including bariatric surgery), abdomen and its contents, breast, skin and soft tissue, endocrine system, solid organ transplantation, pediatric surgery, surgical critical care, surgical oncology (including head and neck surgery), trauma and emergency surgery, and vascular surgery.