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...beat myself up too much about anything, but certainly again it comes back to the fact that Matt's this kid making mistakes, and you can get away with it. I did what I had to do. There's a couple times where I wish I were more patient here and there, and that just comes with having the confidence to do that. I think I was able to pull it off because Matt was that kind of person...
Frimmer's medical expertise enabled him to translate his personal experience as a terminally ill patient into advice to doctors. He began lecturing health professionals at hospitals near his suburban home outside New York City. "There has to be more time given to patients," he said. "Doctors should have a knowledge of how difficult the tests are for patients. They should understand what it feels like to do a CAT scan and have diarrhea in the middle of the test." Most important: "Let patients do the talking. Learn to listen. Doctors give answers without listening to the questions...
...plans to become a rabbi, embarked on a chaplaincy internship at a Boston hospital. The confluence of her father's terminal illness and her career choice created opportunities for a unique dialogue. As a doctor, Frimmer had helped Dara with her science homework in high school. Now, as a patient, he helped her with her study of sickness and dying. With the skills learned in school and in her internship, Dara was able to help her father open up about what he was feeling...
Along with his wife, who was able to care for him full time, he had a circle of close friends that included a couple of nurses, one of them a bereavement counselor; an ethicist who specialized in medical issues; several doctors; and a former patient, Steve Kalafer, who years earlier had been treated by Frimmer for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, now in remission...
...scene is all too familiar. I have witnessed it--and been a participant--more times than I care to remember: a small team of physicians and students on rounds stops at the door of a patient in the last stages of a disease that has eluded all efforts at a cure. After an awkward hesitation, the senior member turns to the others and says, "She's probably very tired and needs her rest. It's better not to disturb her. Let's just go ahead and see how yesterday's colectomy is doing." The others nod, and they move...