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- Title
Keeping Time.
- Authors
Tunzi, Marc
- Abstract
That's Brandenberg Concerto #3,' the Latino teenager informed me as I entered the exam room. I have a habit of whistling around the hospital. A little Bach. A little Gershwin. Disney. The Beatles. Italian folk songs. Christmas carols in December. I mix it up. As whistlers go, I'm pretty good-maybe a seven out of ten, all around-but I'm no virtuoso. In my work as a family physician, my repertoire is also quite broad, but not endlessly deep. My Latino teenager ostensibly came in for evaluation of a 'lump' that turned out to be a small lymph node. The real reason for his visit, however, was to discuss symptoms of depression and anxiety, a self-described sense of 'disassociation,' and his severely alcoholic father. 'Tell the doctor why you are really here,' his mother told us both in Spanish as she exited the room. And I had fifteen minutes. With patients waiting.
- Subjects
FAMILY medicine; INSURANCE; HEALTH insurance; MEDICAL care; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; GENERAL practitioners; OCCUPATIONAL roles
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2013, Vol 43, Issue 6, p7
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hast.224