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The Heart and Lung Waiting Room

The Heart and Lung Waiting Room at a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky As morning strains to pump daylight through the tinted windows of the waiting room, a family's prayers embrace the air. Elevator doors slice through conversations surrounding the nervous tic of a clock. People clutching pillows wrestle with sleep, their dreams splintered by wooden chair arms. Meanwhile, a voice repeatedly sounds a doctor's name over the intercom. The receptionist knits her brows, caught up in the muffled yarn of a TV talk show while, for those wrapped in worry, time moves more slowly than color returning to a face. Letters forever blocked inside a crossword puzzle rest beneath an outpatient's false teeth clenched in a container on a table. Beside herself, a woman standing alone in a corner clasps her coffee, as dark, swirled, and hard to stomach as the moment before her. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

The Heart and Lung Waiting Room

JAMA , Volume 301 (23) – Jun 17, 2009

The Heart and Lung Waiting Room

Abstract

at a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky As morning strains to pump daylight through the tinted windows of the waiting room, a family's prayers embrace the air. Elevator doors slice through conversations surrounding the nervous tic of a clock. People clutching pillows wrestle with sleep, their dreams splintered by wooden chair arms. Meanwhile, a voice repeatedly sounds a doctor's name over the intercom. The receptionist knits her brows, caught up in the muffled yarn of a TV talk show...
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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.2009.678
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Abstract

at a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky As morning strains to pump daylight through the tinted windows of the waiting room, a family's prayers embrace the air. Elevator doors slice through conversations surrounding the nervous tic of a clock. People clutching pillows wrestle with sleep, their dreams splintered by wooden chair arms. Meanwhile, a voice repeatedly sounds a doctor's name over the intercom. The receptionist knits her brows, caught up in the muffled yarn of a TV talk show while, for those wrapped in worry, time moves more slowly than color returning to a face. Letters forever blocked inside a crossword puzzle rest beneath an outpatient's false teeth clenched in a container on a table. Beside herself, a woman standing alone in a corner clasps her coffee, as dark, swirled, and hard to stomach as the moment before her.

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JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jun 17, 2009

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