Morris A. Wessel, a Yale Medical School graduate (1943), gives much of his practice time to children and adolescents with behavior disorders. Currently, he is enthusiastically helping to develop HOSPICE, INC., a greater New Haven community organization with the aim: "to help patients and families face with dignity and meaning that part of life we call death." In 1972, he was the President of the New England Pediatric Society.
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