Doctor Shares Diagnosis for Success Even Sky Isn't the Limit for Fischer's Optimism
Augusta Chronicle, The › November 07, 2007
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Who hasn't gone to college with the idealistic self-promise to come out and make a difference in the world?
Paul Fischer actually did it.See the full content of this document
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Doctor Shares Diagnosis for Success Even Sky Isn't the Limit for Fischer's Optimism
His landmark research into the effects of cigarette advertising on children sparked one of the early battles in the tobacco wars that raged throughout the 1990s. It ultimately got restrictions on cigarette advertising.
The Augusta physician didn't change the world, though, without the influence of his children.The tobacco advertising study was inspired by his son, Tariq, who as a toddler said he wanted to smoke cigarettes.When Dr. Fischer decided to leave academia, it was his daughter, Shireen, who persuaded him to stay in Augusta and go back into doctoring, and he started what is now the area's largest physicians group."He's a free thinker. He believes anything is possible," said Benjamin Hamilton, the president of ImagineAir, an Atlanta-based air taxi service that Dr. Fischer is bankrolling.When Dr. Fischer's patients found out he was star...See the full content of this document
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