A reminder of medicine’s main purpose

He had been in the hospital for 3 months. A rocky 3 months, much of it in the ICU. Now, when it looks like he will be leaving on his way to a near full recovery, his wife tells me she can’t thank me enough telling her husband “she never lost faith in you.”

I felt as if my medical practice had suddenly been realigned. All the recent years of practice …

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