title: Pulling the cart and enjoying the ride.
abstract: I was pleased to receive the invitation to write this prefactory chapter. In doing so, I join a number of physiologists whose work and writings I have often admired. There are two aspects of my experience in physiology that I discuss here. The first concerns my own research accomplishments. The second is my role in developing three departments of physiology and fostering the careers of others. While I take pleasure in the former, the overall contribution of the latter was undoubtedly greater.
authors: Department of Physiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599, USA. cmahunt@intrex.net
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