An excerpt from The Little Boy Inside and Other Stories.
“Hey Altman,” the chief resident says.
We’re in a small group outside a patient’s room. I look up.
“One of the high-fivers needs a central line over on Two North.”
High-fiver. Another code word from the secret language of medicine. High-five means HIV, positive …
A medical short story: High five
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