An 88-Year-Old Woman Was Brought To My ER. When Her Family Told Me Why, I Was Stunned.
Teona Gherasim
The computer said she was an 88-year-old female with a chief complaint of fatigue. From experience, I knew fatigue in an older person could be caused by almost anything. So … was it a heart attack? Depression? Cancer? An infection somewhere? Or was she just … fatigued? The real reason she was there never crossed my mind. The tiny woman had positioned herself precisely in the center of the gurney. Her white tennis shoes sat under the chair with a thick, flesh-colored knee-high stocking tucked
din zilele anterioare