Waiting for Jerry

Affiliations

¹ Henry Bair is a student at Stanford University Medical School. Contact author: hbair@stanford.edu. Reflections is coordinated by Madeleine Mysko, MA, RN: mmysko@comcast.net. Illustration by Janet Hamlin. A podcast of this essay is available at www.ajnonline.com.

Henry Bair. Am J Nurs. 2020 Mar.

. 2020 Mar;120(3):72.

doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000656380.51779.10.

¹ Henry Bair is a student at Stanford University Medical School. Contact author: hbair@stanford.edu. Reflections is coordinated by Madeleine Mysko, MA, RN: mmysko@comcast.net. Illustration by Janet Hamlin. A podcast of this essay is available at www.ajnonline.com.

Abstract

A patient's mysterious (and infectious) hope gives her meaning and seems to bolster her strength.