August 25, 2014 Monday "Dreek"

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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August 25, 2014 Monday

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

     ha  (headache)

Interesting Name:

  Dreek

Anecdote:

     It helps during the day to have some positive feedback. Eddie, age seven, was very reassuring to me during his visit.  I was playing games with him during the exam to put him at ease and at one point he grabbed the pen and pad and on three separate pieces of paper he scribbled rapidly and handed them to me, one after the other: 

     "You are very nice."  

     "You are a good doc."  

     "You are not crazy."

          Westport, Connecticut  1990's