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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 9/2012

01-09-2012 | Healing Arts: Materia Medica

No Loneliness on His Face

Author: Arthur C. Grant, MD, PhD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 9/2012

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Worried, determined, and respectful, she was at his side in the emergency room. Her husband, a stocky, barrel-chested man of 50 had worked his whole life in the tobacco fields of western Massachusetts—“the large leaves used to wrap cigars” she stated quickly, anticipating my question—but had never smoked since that right-of-passage cigarette at age 14, furtively shared with two other boys on a summer Saturday afternoon. “So we just don’t understand,” she mused, “why these problems with his lungs don’t get any better.” …
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Title
No Loneliness on His Face
Author
Arthur C. Grant, MD, PhD
Publication date
01-09-2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 9/2012
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-011-1950-z

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