title: True stories.
abstract: Four stories, all true, all upsetting, all with lessons for the discerning doctor. In this series, life won 3-1. But none of us are immortal, no matter what an over confident American group who call themselves 'The Immortals' I saw on television the other day has to say. Lest we forget--families, friends, patients and what we do to them, stress and risk factors--the potpourri of our medical lives.
mesh_terms: D004238:Diverticulitis / Q000523:psychology; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014827:Vocal Cords