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Health Affairs, 28, no. 2 (2009): 540-545 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.2.540 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Narrative Matters

Buying Lunch...And What Else?

Melinda Morton

IT WAS MY FIRST DAY WORKING AT THE family medicine clinic, and as a typical, dutiful medical student, I was eager to get started. My first patient was an elderly woman with chronic back pain, a problem she’d struggled with for years; she was asking for medication to tide her over until her mail-order prescription was filled. After I completed a thorough history and physical exam, one of the clinic doctors and I conferred, and then we went in together to see her. While the two of them talked, the doctor sent me to get some samples of a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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