Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Stopping Time

John knew the pain was wrong. Yet with his stoic Midwestern roots, it took a month of constant chest pain to express concern to me, his wife. He had lived with reflux for decades, but this was different. “Could you order a chest x-ray for me? Maybe I broke a rib.” Only a couple of orthopedic surgeons would put that first on the differential.

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