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	Institution: CLOCKSS  | My Account | E-mail Alerts | Access Rights | Sign In Vol. 4 No. 1, January 1995   Archives  •  Online Features Living in Medicine  This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal Requiescas in pace John Graham-Pole, MD, MRCP Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(1):11. Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings. Illness, to us caregivers, is an unfitting way to problem-solve. But you faced fatality. And felt relief: you'd earned at last an honorable discharge from your losing side; had no more need for a point to it all. Still, from shame, you cloaked your thankfulness; feigned the good fight, shammed your compliance with our pills (care's give-and-take conspiracy). Amid secret tastings of deathday as birthday, you scraped a last laurel for your sidelined life by dousing all your years' candles with your final blow. John Graham-Pole, MD, MRCP University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article] Author Affiliations University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville HOME | CURRENT ISSUE | PAST ISSUES | TOPIC COLLECTIONS | CME | PHYSICIAN JOBS | HELP CONDITIONS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY | CONTACT US | SITE MAP   © 1995 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.