Keeping Time. (November 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tunzi, Marc
• Is Part Of: Hastings Center report. Volume 43:Number 6(2013:Nov./Dec.)
• Page Start: 7
• Page End: 8
• Publication Date: 2013-11
• Subjects: Medical ethics -- Periodicals; Bioethics -- Periodicals; 174.205
• DOI: 10.1002/hast.224
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0093-0334

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>Abstract</title> <p> <italic>That's Brandenberg Concerto #3, " the Latino teenager informed me as I entered the exam room. I have a habit of whistling around the hospital. A little Bach. A little Gershwin. Disney. The Beatles. Italian folk songs. Christmas carols in December. I mix it up. As whistlers go, I'm pretty good—maybe a seven out of ten, all around—but I'm no virtuoso. In my work as a family physician, my repertoire is also quite broad, but not endlessly deep</italic>.</p> <p> <italic>My Latino teenager ostensibly came in for evaluation of a "lump" that turned out to be a small lymph node. The real reason for his visit, however, was to discuss symptoms of depression and anxiety, a self‐described sense of "disassociation, " and his severely alcoholic father. "Tell the doctor why you are really here, " his mother told us both in Spanish as she exited the room. And I had fifteen minutes. With patients waiting</italic>.</p> </abstract>