Posted 01/26/2010
What to Do When You Forget What the Doctor Said
A bad case of nerves?
By James Hubbard, MD, MPH
Once I told a perfectly sane, intelligent, and otherwise coherent patient to wait in the exam room to have blood work drawn. He smiled, said thanks, and followed me out the door. I told him again he needed to come back into the room and wait to have blood drawn. He smiled, said thanks again, and walked down the hall to leave. When he opened the door to go to the reception area, I had to gently restrain him so he would actually listen to what I was telling him. Read More >>
Posted 03/23/2009
Guilty
Too busy to visit mother
By Sara Myers
I have been busy. No, I have been very, very busy. I normally visit my
mother once a week, sometimes twice a week. She lives in an assisted
living facility near my office in Seattle, but it has been almost three
weeks since I visited, and I have been feeling really guilty—as if I
had abandoned her.
Webster’s defines the word guilty as "having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, esp. against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable.” Yikes! Pretty serious stuff. Read More >>
Webster’s defines the word guilty as "having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, esp. against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable.” Yikes! Pretty serious stuff. Read More >>
