This morning’s Wall Street Journal featured an article which began, “Sometimes it’s the patient who gives the doctor a headache.” The article cited studies that suggest doctors are more likely to misdiagnose you if you’re considered difficult. Traits of difficult…
Every so often, a parable appears in the newspaper. Last week, The New York Times published a story about a homeless man who had been living in his car on a residential street in Brooklyn for a year. Gene doesn’t…
As Steve Hartman of CBS News reported the story in one of his “On the Road” segments, it was a routine 911 call: Melvyn Amrine had gone out for a walk, and after 40 minutes, he hadn’t returned. Doris, his…
One of my grandmothers lived to 103, politically active to the end. My other grandmother died at 98, able to bake a pie from scratch until her last years. So when my mom showed signs of dementia at 80, we…
