April 18, 2019
The Alcoholic Jehovah’s Witness with a Bleeding Stomach Ulcer
The man should have been in his prime, but lay in his 30s in his ICU bed when I returned back in the morning. I was on my medical intensive care unit rotation during residency. We were rounding with the attending ICU doctor, describing each patient’s illness and plan, when I heard the patient’s story. “Mr. Terry is a 35 year…