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Exhibit 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned constitutes and appoints LAURA J.
SCHUMACHER, JOHN A. BERRY, RICHARD E. GREEN and STEVEN
L. SCROGHAM, and each of them individually, as the
undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for the undersigned and in the
undersigned's name, place and stead, to prepare and
sign any and all Securities and Exchange Commission
("SEC") Notices of Proposed Sales of Securities
pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933
on Form 144, all SEC statements on Forms 3, 4 and 5 as
required under Section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, and any amendments to such
forms, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto,
and other documents in connection therewith, with the
SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent
full power and authority to do and perform each act
and thing requisite and necessary to be done under
said Rule 144 and Section 16(a), as fully for all
intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could
do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
said attorney-in-fact and agent may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.

A copy of this power of attorney shall be filed with
the SEC.  The authorization set forth above shall
continue in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 144,
3, 4, or 5 or if earlier, until the undersigned
revokes such authorization by written instructions to
the attorney-in-fact.


Date:  January 1, 2010

/s/ J. Scott White
Signature of Reporting Person

J. Scott White
Name

Abbott Laboratories
100 Abbott Park Road
Abbott Park, IL  60064

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