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97-Year-Old Doctor Returns to His Medical School for His Great-Granddaughter's White Coat Ceremony

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Dr. Westel Creager, 97, attended his great-granddaughter Haiden Hauret's white coat ceremony at the University of Kentucky Medical School—the same institution where he graduated in 1970—wearing his own white coat to mark the occasion. Creager began his career as a carpenter, attended college in his thirties, and worked as an emergency physician into his seventies, also opening an AIDS hospital.

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