Monday morning, rounding on my new patients: I knocked at the door of my last patient, an elderly man I'd been told loved to talk. His aid invited me to enter.
“Good morning,” I said.
He didn't respond. Thinking he might be hard of hearing, I put my hand lightly on his shoulder and repeated myself. He looked at me and, after a pause, said, “Good morning.”
I sat next to him and asked how he was doing. “It's a beautiful view up here,” I offered.
“How long have you been working here?” he asked. His eyes stared deeply into ...
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Corresponding Author: Renuka Gupta, MD, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, 525 East 68th Street, Box 130, New York, NY 10065.
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