Humor 101
Several days a year I’m what’s known as a Standardized Patient. An actor. A fake. A learning tool for beginning medical students. From interacting with me, they learn to communicate with “real” people in a medical setting.
Tears Aren’t Always Bad News
I have chest pain again. Chest pain and dizziness and shortness of breath. So I am in the ER for the dozenth time over the past few years.
And because no one ever knows what’s going on (because I’m a woman of a certain age and all the tests are negative), we all assume it’s just one of those things. It will go away. Or it won’t.
“But don’t hesitate to come in when you have the symptoms again.”
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