What this physician learned from being an ailing patient
I felt a gust of sharp pain a couple of centimeters to the right of my belly button. It will subside, I thought. All pain subsides. It was an easy dictum to follow as a 39-year-old pediatric eye doc who last spent a night in the hospital as a patient in 1977.
I’d undergone bilateral laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair ten days earlier, so I was accustomed to brief squalls of discomfort …
