Erschienen in:
08.02.2024 | Viewpoint
From the Other Side—The Family Disease
verfasst von:
Brent W. Beasley, MD, MBA
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 6/2024
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Excerpt
It’s a cold Tuesday morning in December, and the cool infusion running into the bruised vein on the back of my hand makes me colder sitting here in the infusion center, watching the medication drip, drip, drip as the infusion pump ticks off each drop. Nurses are busy with other patients also receiving infusions of different sorts—some for chemotherapy, some for antibiotics, and a growing number of us for monoclonal antibody therapy. I’ve been a primary care doctor for (it takes me a moment to calculate) 31 years, but now I’m sitting on the “other side” of the table. …