July 22, 2014 Tuesday "Tuff"

First Words

      …thoughts of an anachronistic, solo pediatrician

                    by Glenn Feole, M.D.

        "Be careful too that the reading of your story makes the melancholy 

        laugh and the merry laugh louder," Cervantes, Prologue to Don Quixote

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July 22, 2014 Tuesday

Impressions of the Met, p 4 of 10

Chief Complaint: (written on the chart before I go in the room)

“low grade sx”   

     (In medical practice, the abbreviation 'sx' stands for symptoms…as opposed to…well…)

Interesting Name:

     Tuff

Anecdote:

     Taylor, age five, was full of life.  He would tease me and generally zip around the room having fun during his exam.  His Mother and I were discussing discipline and we were going into more and more detail about certain situations.  Taylor probably wasn't enamored of the subject matter and kept trying to interrupt.  His Mother kept telling him to wait a minute and he finally just walked off.  

    He came back into the exam room with something in his hands just as my finger was jabbing the air as I made a particularly forceful point.  He climbed onto the exam table near me and gently, in mid-sentence, put a piece of tape over my mouth.

          Westport, Connecticut, 1990's

Poetry:

Coup d'essai:

"Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me,"  Thoreau, Walden, p. 3, Chapter One.
 

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