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I completed my internship and residency in the U.S. Army at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco. At the time, there was no rheumatology division there and I was interested in pursuing gastroenterology. I needed to serve 2 years practicing in the field before being eligible for an Army fellowship, or getting out and doing a fellowship at a university. While practicing internal medicine
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