Perspectives

Still Invisible After All These Years

Authors: Farrin A. Manian, MD, MPH

Abstract

I still wonder what happened to him after he left the hospital against medical advice (AMA). About a week before, David had been admitted for a severe leg infection to the general medicine ward where I served as his attending physician. His hospitalization had an inauspicious beginning; he seemed very anxious from the moment he arrived on the floor.

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