DIAGNOSIS

[摘要] You joke that they get younger every year, but this one looks as if he might still need his mother to drive him to work each day. While he flicks through your charts, he taps a pen against his folded knee: tick, tick, tick, tick. You’re so close to him you can see sleep at the corner of one eye, the purse of his mouth as he reads, the silvered seam of an old scar stretched across his chin. Looking closer, you see the bicycle – a green BMX with muddy spokes – skidding on wet leaves in a winter street, or squat stone steps under a slick of ice, the jump from a stoop or the sudden flight of the skateboard soaring up, then down into a circle of sneakers half-tied on as the kids make a ring around him.

[学科分类] 呼吸医学