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… observations, there was only one that I ever used. Rob had completed his general surgery residency and was in his last … not sure I had heard him correctly. I knew patients would die under my care but my role was to save, not kill, them. … Final Exam , to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 252-265 By Pauline W. Chen …

… whom he’d bought the house, about whom he never failed to comment “French blood, doubtless”; Mr. Addison Babson. . . … advance me five thousand. As usual, you launch into my morals, my maternal duties, my—Will you answer Yes or … had taken the new direction, she began to feel less disembodied. The houses here, though old, were not so big and not …

… part, though his body remains. Three weeks after my brother died of cancer, in 2021, my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Tim and I knew it was coming. We talked about it in the last months of his life … powerful to me when I was a boy, was losing himself.   Tim died near the end of May. I stayed up every night, unable to …

… are not, for all that, sorry to be human. We should rather die as men than live as animals.” By so much did his Stoicism differ from that of the … The latter was positive, “whether he saw the thing as comedy or high tragedy or plain farce, he would affirm that …

… around the Herbst boys when they were having one of their competitive spats? They didn’t look like brothers then, and … Leonard was now living in the basement waiting to die; was dying in the basement one might say, though … no doubt learn to argue early, he was a Herbst wasn’t he.  126-132 By Edith Pearlman …