Erschienen in:
09.12.2016 | Healing Arts: Materia Medica
Carrying My Father
verfasst von:
John F. Steiner, MD, MPH
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 5/2017
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Excerpt
I never felt like a dutiful son. My parents separated weeks after I left for college, and my father eventually married five times. As I learned to be a husband and father, I was guided by an example I did not wish to repeat. Although we lived in the same city, my father and I spoke only when he initiated the call. When we did talk, I deflected our conversations to neutral topics to avoid issues I could not discuss with him. …