I’m “pleasant.” My neck is “supple.” And I’m neurologically “intact.” Whew…glad to hear that.

Although the compliments were nice, more interesting was from whom they came and why I was now reading them.

For the first time in my life, I was reading what a doctor said about me, in the form of a medical record being sent to my primary care doctor. Inexplicably, the physician, a Johns Hopkins immunologist, mailed me a copy. Wow. How could I have lived this long, and dealt with so many doctors, and never once read what those health professionals had thought. (more…)