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The Good Patient
List of authors.The visit to my doctor was not terribly out of the ordinary. I had waited several months, hoping the pain would remit, but the throbbing in my shoulders, initially episodic and activity-related, became constant, woke me early in the morning, and made me reluctant even to try to exercise. So there I was in my doctor's office, waiting. But this time, as I waited, I talked to a digital camera I had perched on the exam table.(Figure)Every time I watch this scene, I cringe — not at the time wasted in waiting, and not even at the . . .
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