LOSING PATIENTS
Attending Sunday Mass at an upper-East Side church in Manhattan, I sat behind a well-known neighborhood physician and his young son. During the service the priest read a list of the “dearly departed” members of the parish and asked the congregation to pray for them. “Dad,” the son said in a clear voice, audible to all sitting nearby, “weren’t those people your patients?” From Reader’s Digest, November, 1989, by Fred Talento, Jr., quoted by Larry Sutton in New York Daily News Magazine
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