There are medical honors so rare you don’t even know they exist. When you’re trudging through the slog of PBK/AOA/other — ultimately meaningless — letters, these seem to be the definition of distinction. Just like every other lesson, a patient taught me what real prestige is.
Well, it wasn’t entirely that Oslerian, it was the patient’s nephew.*
Carl paged me on an ordinary day — a fellow physician, he once saved my family’s life with the silent, brusque wave of a pen. His aunt, Sharon, had been hospitalized for weeks. Carl knew I wasn’t on service, but he’d heard about me. Could I just take a look, see if I could add anything?
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