My patient Carol sat in my office and said, “I was prepared for my knees to ache. I was not prepared to lose my hair. I was not prepared to feel like a stranger in my own body.” After thirty years…
Carol sat across from me, her hands folded in her lap, and looked at me with an expression I’ve come to know well over thirty years of practice. It wasn’t pain I saw in her eyes that afternoon. It was confusion. “Doctor,” she said, her voice quiet, “I was prepared for my knees to ache. … Read more