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Worries Stay with You After the Workday Ends
Jan 08, 2013
Lisa Ferzoco, MD describes how worrying about one of her patients might keep her up at night. “She walked out of here smiling and then she called me at 10:00 at night: ‘Oh my God, I’m in so much pain.’ She came into the hospital in the middle of the night as an emergency. She was totally fine, but I spent a lot of time worrying about her.”
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