Dr Louis M. Profeta is an emergency physician practicing in Indianapolis. He is one of LinkedIn's Top Voices and the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Patient in Room Nine Says He's God. Dr Louis holds a medical degree from the Indiana University Bloomington.
Last week, I delivered the Baccalaureate address at my alma mater North Central High School in Indianapolis. This is what I said to the graduates.
I couldn’t get him out of my mind. He woke me up at 2 a.m. and I paced the room, blew my nose and stared into my bathroom mirror studying my own aging features. He wasn’t my patient.
I'm fairly certain he killed her. I came to the realization of this one hot, sunny day on my back porch.
Mary broke down a bit as she told me that her child had some developmental issues that would be with her forever. She had three otherwise healthy children and for a parent like her, uber accomplished, always in control, knowing Mattie would have to make her way through the rest of her life as an adult looking through the world with the eyes of a child was just now hitting her. You could see the fear of a mother worried that a time would come when her daughter might be guided through life by others who did not love with the same depth of a mother for her daughter.
I was sitting in a chair next to my son wondering if he was going to die. He was sound asleep, so I flipped through my emails on my Apple laptop that was now covered with stickers I had taken from the pediatric cancer nurses station. Superman, Despicable Me, SpongeBob, Cancer Sucks, NY Yankees ... all the edges on the stickers were starting to wear a bit.
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