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Hospitals
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Prayer to Our Lady of Waiting Rooms
Let the seats be plentiful and padded.
Let the magazines be recent or let the book
I’ve brought last until we can leave.
Let the TV on its bolted stand be off,
muted, or showing something I can ignore—
weather, gameshows, CNN. Let the room
be mostly empty—no one shouting, sobbing,
asking about my husband’s health.
Let everyone be strangers except
the staff. Let the walls be freshly painted,
soothing to behold. Let my husband
be there for a physical o
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After thousands of hours at the bedside and thousands of hours in education with my students, one thing I’ve come to understand is that of all the contagious things in a hospital—measles and tuberculosis and Covid-19—nothing is easier to catch than anxiety. It spreads faster than you can say, “I’m nervous.” And almost always, the most anxious person in the room is the last to be aware of it, even after they’ve infected everyone around them.
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Zackary Berger, author of Talking To Your Doctor (http://talkingtoyourdoctor.org), moderates a c…more
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