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Journal of General Internal Medicine
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 4/2012

01-04-2012 | Healing Arts: Materia Medica

Natural Causes

Author: Leslie G. Cohen, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 4/2012

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Face drawn and impassive, his silvery hair askew, Dr. Krieger sat beside his wife’s bed in the ICU every day for three weeks listening to the rhythmic clicking of the respirator, watching the IV drip and the pacing spikes on the cardiac monitor. He talked softly to her mute, immobile body, smoothed her hair and held her hand. Every two or three days, he called their children with comforting lies of hope for their mother’s eventual recovery. …
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Title
Natural Causes
Author
Leslie G. Cohen, MD
Publication date
01-04-2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 4/2012
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-011-1893-4

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