documentation

[摘要] he said he’d been treated but something came up - we thought: “noncompliant,” ignoring the why and called his old clinic - they still had his chart! they’d hold it for him until he could stop by. he brought it that week but the pages were wet: steeped in the sputum of cavernous cough, the black ink now wicking to purple, to plaques, in fever condensing to streams running off. we started to write since we wanted to know; we counted, adjusted, and measured with care - and then we told stories of counts thinning out: primordial forest now charred from the flare.

[学科分类] 呼吸医学