There Are Worse Things Than Dying

Jul 17, 2023

∙ Paid

MRI of brain showing hippocampus atrophy (red rectangles), more prominent in Alzheimer's disease than DLB, compared to normal control (NC)caption...

When I first became a doctor, there was broad understanding of this fact. There was even a saying: “Pneumonia is the old man’s friend.” I am an internist who treated older patients. The saying means that the…

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