Only when you are a patient do you experience the frailty of being one
We as physicians need a dose of our own medicine as a booster ever so often.
I went in for a simple procedure. A lumbar epidural steroid injection for pain which has recently become more than tolerable at times — nothing disabling. Nothing that stops my everyday life and living. I didn’t think much of the procedure at all because I am at the other end of operating room procedures on …