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THIN AND FRAIL, MR. HORN WAS BREATHING with pursed lips from advanced lung disease due to a lifetime of smoking. A bit too animated, neat to a fault, charming, and justifiably anxious—he had emphysema. He looked like a red-cheeked, short-of-breath Fred Astaire.

We first met in his Upper East Side apartment, where I came to see him for an initial home visit. He was referred to our Visiting Doctors Program by his equally anxious daughter, who’d noticed that for months his breathing difficulties had kept him from getting to the doctor for anything other than emergencies.

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