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At Ease

Ronald H. Lands, MD

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The suit he wore, purchased years before, fluttered on his angular frame like a flag on July 4th. The dark hollows around his eyes were a haunting contrast to the shock of thick white hair that he combed straight back from his forehead. The manicured nails did not disguise that several of his fingers had been broken and allowed to heal without intervention. A polished hickory walking cane hung like an ornament over his crooked left arm as he limped back and forth across the length of my examining room.
I was late, but he camouflaged his impatience. Every question I asked him, he answered with the soldierly addition of “Sir” to the end of each sentence. I extracted the history of his present illness painfully. I would ask a question, only to hear him rephrase it and minimize the answer.
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Lands RH. At Ease. Ann Intern Med. ;124:70–71. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-124-1_Part_1-199601010-00014

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1996;124(1_Part_1):70-71.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-124-1_Part_1-199601010-00014

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