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At the beginning of my shift, I placed a stethoscope on an elderly
and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. 'Big breaths,'
I instructed.
'Yes, they used to be,'. . . replied the patient.
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While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked 'How
long have you been bedridden?'
After a look of complete confusion she answered . . .'
Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was still alive.'
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