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Dr. Theresa Chan, author of Rural Doctoring hosts Grand Rounds, the weekly carnival of medical blogs.

She gives us a Shakespearean Grand Rounds themed on The Seven Ages of Man.

Rural Doctoring: Grand Rounds, Volume 4, #49: The Seven Ages of Man.

The Seven Ages of Man speech is delivered by Jacques in As You Like It, a pastoral comedy featuring the adventures of lovers and fugitives in the Forest of Arden. Jacques is a melancholy officer in the service of a banished duke, and he has some of the greatest lines Shakespeare ever wrote:

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

The speech addresses the cycle of a person’s life, from birth to extreme old age, and touches upon some of the roles and achievements we try to accomplish at each stage. For this week’s Grand Rounds submissions, I have categorized each within the stage I think most suited for the post’s topic.

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