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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…

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