I don’t make it a habit to bash medical or legal professionals, who are, after all, just human and subject to stresses like the rest of us.

But sometimes I think they’re just reciting boilerplate and may not even listen to themselves. I know they carry a lot—but that is the life they chose. They hold a bigger place in my life than I do in theirs, and their words matter.

My nominee, after I described a distressing symptom: “Let’s wait and see if it happens again, and if it doesn’t, it was just a one-time thing.”

Thanks, doc.

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