{"id":25524,"date":"2017-03-03T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25524"},"modified":"2017-03-03T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:37:30","slug":"trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25524","title":{"rendered":"Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\n\/medical_examiner\/2017\/02\/one_doctor_s_experience_telling_patients_trump_is_president.html\">All kinds of things<\/a> can cause these lapses in memory, from chronic dementia to a temporary head injury. So, some patients are alert, conversant, and are otherwise \u201cwith it\u201d enough to understand the gravity of the news I end up breaking to them. It\u2019s actually a fascinating moment, and I have become deeply curious as to what each patient\u2019s reaction will be. Each time now, I stop, take a big breath, look them squarely in the eyes, and then I reveal to them the full, undeniable truth of the situation: The president of these United States is Donald J. Trump. I pause. I do not break eye contact.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, it isn\u2019t pretty.<\/p>\n<p>One elderly woman let out a startling moan, the kind of sound I would have expected if someone had told her that her cat had died. Another blinked twice when I told him. \u201cReally?\u201d he said, in disbelief. \u201cCome on, doc, you\u2019re shaking my leg.\u201d One patient accused me of playing a trick, although I have not yet been accused of bringing fake news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All kinds of things can cause these lapses in memory, from chronic dementia to a temporary head injury. So, some patients are alert, conversant, and are otherwise \u201cwith it\u201d enough to understand the gravity of the news I end up breaking to them. It\u2019s actually a fascinating moment, and I have become deeply curious as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25525,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25524\/revisions\/25525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}