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Podcast: Sensible Medicine
Episode: Friday Reflection 45: Patients
Description: The woman with palpitations.The man with whom you used to joke and trade barbs who now sits silently, absent, while you talk to his wife.The woman whose depression dominates every visit; her depression being the one problem she refuses to address.The man whose joy and charisma makes every visit an absolute pleasure, despite his painful disability about which you can really do nothing.The man who never complains. Well, not never. The two times he did complain he ended up with emergent bypass surgery and a diagnosis of...