Illustrating the Value of Clear Patient Communication

A ninety year old woman had just lost her husband of seventy years. She decided she could not bear to be alone and so would take her life. Being a prudent woman, she made an appointment with her doctor. In the exam room she asked her doctor where exactly her heart was. The doctor answered, “It’s just below your left breast.”

So the widow went home and took out her late husband’s gun and shot herself in the exact spot her doctor said her heart was. A few hours later a ninety year old widow was taken into the ER with a gunshot wound to the left knee.