The outlier

The “outlier” is one who lives much longer than expected. Two Lubbock friends notified me of my former patient’s “graduation” recently. In her obituary, she gave thanks to me by name, as well as others who helped her along the way. I had a bunch of patients from 15 years of practice, but in December 2014, I had a host of new patients, which were left to me from my former boss as a parting gift. On…