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To Die in Her Own Bed
Robert S. Bobrow, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(9):901-902.
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Do YOU make house calls?" asked a woman on the telephone whom I had not met, who had gotten my name from the County Medical Society. I did, sometimes, and after hearing about her elderly, housebound friend who lived around the corner from my office, I decided this would be one of those times. The Patient, whom I shall call Alice J., was 82 years of age, arthritic with a touch of diabetes, and able to ambulate erratically, but she lived in her own home as she had done for many, many years. Her husband had died 12 years earlier; there were no children. The person who had contacted me (I will call her Mrs Rand) was an old friend who, with her husband, both about 50 years of age, looked in on Mrs J. and helped her maintain herself in her own home.
On examination, the patient was reasonably
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Author Affiliations
Southside Hospital Bay Shore, NY
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