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A geriatric patient with questions her doctor never heard before

H. Lee Kagan, MD
Physician
May 1, 2016

My longtime patient Brenda let the top of her exam gown drop to her waist, stepped down off the exam table and turned to look at herself in the mirror. As I watched, she cupped her seventy-eight-year-old breasts in her palms and unceremoniously hoisted them up to where they’d probably resided when she was in her twenties.

“I’m thinking about having my boobs done,” she said. “My girlfriend had hers done, …

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A geriatric patient with questions her doctor never heard before

Once more, I had learned my lesson about pain and vulnerability

H. Lee Kagan, MD
Physician
September 6, 2014

The nasogastric tube was killing me. It had been in place for twelve hours now, threading its way up my nose and down my throat, past my esophagus, into my stomach. Try as I might, I couldn’t swallow away the nasty lump stuck to the back of my throat. And every time I tried, it hurt.

Decades before, as a physician-in-training in upstate New York, I’d put in more nasogastric (NG) …

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Once more, I had learned my lesson about pain and vulnerability

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